web2py VS Pyramid

For reference, YouTube runs on Python[1,2,3]:

> 1. Python and Django: YouTube’s backend is predominantly written in Python, offering a balance of performance and readability.

> 2. Google Cloud Platform...

> 3. Java and C++: YouTube also utilizes Java and C++ for specific backend services, as they provide better performance for certain tasks.

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A long time ago, I looked into these Python frameworks:

- http://www.web2py.com/

- https://kivy.org/

[1]: https://blogopost.com/youtube-tech-stack/#backend

[2]: https://medium.com/@shanthanaroja99/technology-stack-behind-...

[3]: https://youtu.be/G-lGCC4KKok

At a previous job, not as a software developer, myself and a few others endeavoured to build a CRM for the church I worked at. We opted for web2py simply because it was the thing I had first learned after learning Python and had found incredible power in building something that people could use.

Its Github repository https://github.com/web2py/web2py although it was designed to reduce web development tasks such as developing web forms from starting and working like that. It is cross-platform means that you can run it on Windows, Linux, and other operating systems which can run on your computer.

Once mastered, frameworks like Django, Flask, Web2Py, and Bottle can significantly ease the life of a Python developer. Moreover, Python frameworks allow you to build an application prototype fast, as it essentially eliminates the need for repetitive input code.

Web2py

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You don't need a framework for a single page. That being said, using a framework is probably a good idea if you intend to be on a growth curve.

Pyramid is a framework written to scale from a small, single-file site to a site that has grown horizontally scaled across multiple servers. If I understand your needs correctly, Pyramid is probably worth a look, here's a link: https://trypyramid.com/

Pyramid is under active development, and it has a large, helpful, welcoming user community.

Pyramid (https://trypyramid.com/) is nice in that it has URL dispatch predicates, like @view_config(header="HX-Target-Name=foo") which lets you have HTMX-specific view functions, which return only what is needed

Another option my professional web friends like is Pyramid: https://trypyramid.com/ -- it's for professional-level websites/apps that can't use Django for some reason.

Building, constructing, and maintaining websites is a broad definition of web development. A front-end, which communicates with the client, and a back-end, which contains business logic and interacts with a database, are typical components of web development. Python also supports quite a percentage of the total websites, web apps and software running in the world wide web. The libraries that are applied in web development include: Django, Flask, Pyramid and Turbogears and Web2Py

Pyramid

I've been looking for an alternative to Flask and found Pyramid (https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid). API looks great, lots of good design, almost everything I'm looking for, but it looks like this project is near dead. Not much movement since release 2.0, last commit 15th March 2021 (https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/graphs/contributors).

i been messing with Laravel lately, and it's ass. and/or the entire modern stack is ass. i actually had this app built for me, and i asked the dev to try to strip out as much shit as possible, including, obviously, tailwind. dev did a good job, but it's still a disaster.

flask looks like a dream comparatively.

but. is there a middle ground?

i was a product manager-type on a (python) pylons pyramid project -- https://trypyramid.com/ -- "the start small, finish big, stay finished framework" -- the message sounds good.

seemed fine, but i wasn't a dev on it, and we still had plenty of moving parts for what was a relatively simple e-commerce cms (that, admittedly, had a lot of functionality).

what i really want is a straightjacket -- some framework that says, 'oh, you want to plug in a different templating engine? how about fuck you? will fuck you work for you?'

but i guess that doesn't earn many github stars.

if i had to pick one or recommend one with no other qualifiers, i'd pick sinatra. that way i could do it my way.

For Python, I would recommend Pyramid as a lightweight framework.

If your app is really small/short, you're only fetching crime data and rendering a static image, you can probably do it all with a Cloud Function. This way you don't even need to have nor learn about nor use full web frameworks like Flask, Django, Pyramid, etc. Just raw code plus an HTML template and perhaps a tiny bit of Flask/Jinja2 to render the template.