Firmant 0.2.3a1

A framework for static web applications.

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Firmant is a framework for developing static web applications.

Much of today's web development focuses on developing dynamic applications that regenerate the page for each view. Firmant takes a different approach that allows for publishing of static content that can be served by most http servers.

Some of the benefits of this approach include:

• Build locally, deploy anywhere. Many notable server distributions (including CentOS 5, and Debian Lenny) still ship old (pre-2.6) versions of Python. With Firmant, this is not an issue as static output may be published anywhere independent of the system where it was built.
• Quicker page load times. Search engines and viewers expect near-instant page load times and static content can meet these expectations. Dynamic content can as well; however, it often requires more than simple hardware to do so.
• Offline publishing capability. Previewing changes to a website does not require Internet access, as the changes are all made locally. Changes do not need to be pushed to a remote server.
• Store content in revision control. This is not strictly a feature granted by generating static pages. Firmant is designed to make storing all content in a repository a trivial task -- something that web application frameworks that are powered by relational databases do not consider.

• Author: Robert Escriva (rescrv)
• Home Page: http://firmant.org/
• License: 3-clause BSD
• Categories
  • Development Status :: 4 - Beta
  • Intended Audience :: Developers
  • License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
  • Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X
  • Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
  • Operating System :: Unix
  • Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
  • Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
• Package Index Owner: rescrv
• DOAP record: Firmant-0.2.3a1.xml