[HN Gopher] Zotonic, the Erlang Web Framework
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       Zotonic, the Erlang Web Framework
        
       Author : graderjs
       Score  : 83 points
       Date   : 2022-03-06 13:37 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (zotonic.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (zotonic.com)
        
       | mmzeeman wrote:
       | We are about to release 1.0. The new site is not entirely ready.
       | This is a preview. https://test.zotonic.com.
        
       | lf-non wrote:
       | I am looking at it for the first time but the built in mqtt
       | integration (which extends to browsers) [1] and support for live
       | templates [2] is interesting. It is also interesting that the
       | support for live templates and realtime client server integration
       | predates phoenix liveviews by a long margin.
       | 
       | [1]
       | http://docs.zotonic.com/en/latest/ref/modules/mod_mqtt.html#...
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       | [2]
       | http://docs.zotonic.com/en/latest/ref/scomps/scomp_live.html...
        
         | mmzeeman wrote:
         | Yes indeed. We also have something not more similar to what
         | liveview offers. It is here:
         | https://github.com/mmzeeman/zotonic_mod_teleview. It is based
         | on mqtt, and the views are updated with normal html like
         | templates. This makes it possible for frontenders with html and
         | css knowledge to contribute to a project with a rich SPA like
         | interface.
        
       | throwawayboise wrote:
       | If what you need is a CMS this might be a good platform. I've
       | looked into it a few times because I like Erlang. However their
       | data model is pretty opinionated, everything needs to fit into
       | their concept of "resources" and "categories" and "edges" which
       | relate them.
       | 
       | In my project ideas I always quicky felt like I was having to
       | shoehorn my data model (a much more standard relational model
       | where entities have specific attributes of specific data types)
       | into their "resource and category" model and it just seemed like
       | that would involve a ton of compromises, overhead, and extra
       | work.
       | 
       | If you want to build something that is essentially organized text
       | articles or other media, it could be a good choice.
        
       | alvarlagerlof wrote:
       | This isn't responsive at all. How old is this?
        
         | ramchip wrote:
         | Not sure about the website itself, but Zotonic is about 13
         | years old.
         | 
         | https://github.com/zotonic/zotonic/tree/release-0.1.0
        
           | mmzeeman wrote:
           | Yes, the website is old and about to be retired.
        
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