Re:Crow – C++ Microframework for Web, inspired by Python Flask
by WoodenChair on Monday July 07, 2014 @10:32PM
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This is going to sound overly critical and judgmental to many - but to me, I just don't understand how you can spend the time involved in developing an entire web framework, and don't have the time to write a couple paragraphs for a README on how to use it and what it's all about along with some examples. I'm not talking full documentation - I'm just talking a few sentences and an example or two. Why bother releasing it before then? Why let people unnecessarily struggle to use it? Maybe somebody posted it here before the author was ready (assuming they're different people).
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Re:Crow – C++ Microframework for Web, inspired by Python Flask
by jeremyjh on Monday July 07, 2014 @11:05PM
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Well the author did not submit this himself; I just stumbled on it and thought it looked cool. I think example.cpp gives you a pretty good idea for what it is about, but in retrospect I should have let him post it when he was ready.
Re:Crow – C++ Microframework for Web, inspired by Python Flask
by thezilch on Monday July 07, 2014 @10:45PM
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Different authors -- post and repo -- it would appear. But between the example.cpp and unittest.cpp, there is quite a bit there; if you're not familiar with Flaks, it is a very simple web "framework" that basically just provides request, routing, and response primitives. This library also includes a JSON lib, but Flask gets that from Python's batteries.
Also, Flask was created as a joke; it obviously took off; but there's something there about not taking it super super serious.
Re:Crow – C++ Microframework for Web, inspired by Python Flask
by adamnemecek on Monday July 07, 2014 @10:35PM
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See example.cpp. Also the codebase is very small so not much documentation is necessary. Also I'm pretty sure it's more of an exercise than a framework that's intended to be actually used.