Zotonic: Erlang Web Framework and Performance

Re:Zotonic: Erlang Web Framework and Performance by 1gor on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @08:19AM (#5938873)

From the website:

  Zotonic’s data model can be seen as a pragmatic 
  implementation of the Semantic Web: a mixture between
  a traditional database and a triple store.

I can imagine how to create a CRUD-like webapp with simple mapping DB tables to business objects, but have no experience with triple store.

It would be great to see more sample applications made with zotonic. Not only a cms (simple blog comes pre-installed), but something involving user interaction (an issue tracker, or a HN clone).

Also, at the moment zotonic looks a bit like Zope (everything should be created through backend web forms). I am most likely wrong, but a sample app could demonstrate a workflow that a developer should use.

It's a great framework, quite eager to learn how to use it properly.

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Re:Zotonic: Erlang Web Framework and Performance by arjan_sch on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @09:13AM (#5939147)

Zotonic is not really like Zope: we like developers to be in control of their source code, so stuff like editing templates or code on the web / storing code in the db is not supported and never will be.

Normally, every site that runs in zotonic sits in its own git repository. You can even hook up a webhook to automatically update your site on the fly (hot code reloading, http://modules.zotonic.com/page/367/mod-github)

For a very simple example site you could look a this image pasting service that I whipped up: http://stick.im/ . its code is also on github, https://github.com/arjan/stick.im

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