[PLUG] So I want to write a web app

[Mark Phillips]

Eric,

Take a look at django, a python web framework that creates most of the code
for you. You define your models in python classes and it creates the
backend db (mysql, postgress, etc) and all the pages to crud your data. One
creates other pages (views) in a few lines of python and a template
language. I have found it to be great for those "weekend" projects that
tend to grow over time.

I am not an expert, but happy to help get you started. The tutorial on the
django site is excellent, as is all the documentation. The community is
very active and helpful, too.

Mark
On Apr 9, 2014 8:06 AM, "Eric House" <eehouse at eehouse.org> wrote:

> I'm a long-time Linux user/developer with a personal project that
> needs a web interface.  I could throw it together with apache and
> python and postgres, all of which I know well enough to get myself in
> trouble, but I have a sneaky feeling that in the last 10 years there
> have evolved solutions that would make the job a lot easier.  I've
> never done serious work in that space so I have no clue where to
> begin.
>
> Some background: I've been developing an open source Scrabble(tm)
> play-alike for various mobile platforms for the past 10 years or so.
> Currently I'm focussed on Android (see .sig), and specifically on
> localization.  Localization on Android looks like this: you have a
> master/English .xml file that lists all your user-visible strings, and
> can then provide other per-language files that override them.  The
> actual work of localizing to a language means sending the English .xml
> file to a translator (in my case, a volunteer who likes my app).  It's
> a pain initially, and only gets worse, as changes in the English .xml
> have to be tracked and communicated.
>
> My experience is that volunteers never stick around -- it's just too
> much work.
>
> So I want to wrap the process in a web app: I'll give 'em a URL to a
> page that shows the English side-by-side with editable fields into
> which they put translations.  The app will pull from git, so it'll
> show new strings as soon as I add them.  Greater integration with git
> and of postgres would allow me to show the translator when he'd made
> changes, when I'd made additions, older versions of his strings he's
> discarded, etc.  See where this is going?  Putting something up won't
> take all that long, but making it really usable could steal six months
> from the mobile development I prefer.
>
> Are there any frameworks out there (all open source, of course, and bonus
> if I can just apt-get them :-) that'll make this a single-weekend project,
> or close.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Eric
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