Quick applicationdevelopment withweb frameworks

Aaron SumnerUniversity of KansasCenter for Research on Learning

Photo: Justin Gaurav Murgai via Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/phoenixation/2998955260/

Overview:

•What’s a web application framework?

•Why use one?

•A quick demo

•Nothing (too) technical!

A little about me:

•15 years experience developing web apps at KU, KU Med, U. of Washington

•Perl, AppleScript, a little Java, PHP, VBscript, Ruby

•Switched to frameworks in 2005

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asumner@ku.edu

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“A web application framework is a software framework that is designed to support the development of dynamic websites, Web applications and Web services.

Source: Wikipedia

“The framework aims to alleviate the overhead associated with common activities performed in Web development.

Source: Wikipedia

“For example, many frameworks provide libraries for database access, templating frameworks and session management, and often promote code reuse.”

Source: Wikipedia

Frameworks:

Not frameworks:

Not frameworks (yet?):

MVC

DRY

ScaffoldsMigrations

Plugins

Why I like frameworks

•I save time

•I write less code

•I write better code

•I get a strong support network

•My app meets my exact needs

Potential complaints

•Scalability?

•Learning curve?

•Hosting issues?

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Let’s build an app!