A list of web frameworks for Tcl edit
| Name | License | Requirements | Status | Features | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ActiWeb | XOTcl | Production-ready, maintained | XOTcl based with HTTP server, client, and web framework. | ||
| ATWF | ? | Tcl 8.6, TDBC | ? | ? | An MVC web framework project. |
| EmberWeb | BSD | Tcl 8.5 | Work in progress, active | Routing. | A simple plain Tcl Web framework for small systems. |
| FastWeb | proprietary commercial | ? | Discontinued | Appears to be dead. | |
| HereTcl | ? | Tcl 8.6 | ? | An effort to strip down Wub to its essentials. | |
| jimhttp | MIT | Jim Tcl | Prototype | Pure Jim Tcl HTTP server, [routing], templates, JSON generation and parsing, HTML DSL, persistent key-value storage and static variable persistence. | A microframework prototype modelled after frameworks like Sinatra and Flask. |
| Mel's Internet Toolkit | ? | cgi.tcl | Production-ready, last updated in 2010 | ||
| OpenACS | GNU GPL | AOLserver or NaviServer, a database | Production-ready, maintained | The original Tcl web framework. Emphasises building community-oriented web sites and comes with many pre-built packages. Mature and very stable. | |
Rivetweb | Apache | Rivet | Production-ready | plugin handlers can be written separately for different sources of data (DBMS, Web services etc) and different formats/protocols (JSON, simple text...) | XML-based templating engine |
| Spindle | ? | XOTcl | Alpha, last updated in 2011 | An MVC-style web framework. | |
| Tanzer | MIT | TclOO | Last updated 2015-12-18. | Provides a pattern-based URI router, file service, CGI, SCGI and HTTP dispatcher, and can run as a pure HTTP or SCGI service. | tanzer exists to provide an asynchronous web framework and service leveraging the inherent qualities of Tcl's event loop. |
| Tcl Web Application Framework | MIT | RivetCGI | Production-ready but still in development, last updated in 2011 | ||
| Wapp | BSD | Tcl 8.6 | In production as of 2018, maintained | Complete app in a single TCL file, small easy-to-learn API, CGI or SCGI or HTTP | A simple, lightweight yet robust and secure framework for writing web applications implemented as a single file of TCL |
| Wibble | The Tcl/Tk license | Tcl 8.6 | ? | HTTP server, routing (zone handlers), WebSocket, JSON-RPC, SSL | Provides routing via zone handlers. HTTP requests and responses are dicts. |
| Woof! | BSD | Tcl 8.6 | Production-ready, maintained | Work over the CGI or SCGI protocols with Microsoft IIS, Apache, Lighttpd and other web servers. Provides infrastructure for views and controllers in a class-based MVC architecture, routing (URLs mapped to controller classes), pluggable template engines, responsive design, themable, page localization. | An MVC web framework inspired by Ruby on Rails. |
| Wub | BSD 3-Clause | Tcl 8.6 | Production-ready, maintained | A pure-Tcl web server and framework that uses coroutines. Runs this wiki. |
Discussion edit
dbohdan 2014-10-03: The table's current format is tentative. Feel free to add new columns for data that you think will help compare the frameworks, e.g., columns for individual features.20oct2014Gavino! You Forgot a few:
- aolserver
- ossweb
- naviserver
- apache rivet
- apache websh
- castle
