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  1. POWhat next-generation web app frameworks exist? How do they go beyond RoR, Django, etc.?
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    copied!<p>Currently, the most popular web-app frameworks include <a href="http://rubyonrails.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ruby-on-Rails</a>, <a href="http://djangoproject.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Django</a>, and various PHP frameworks like <a href="http://drupal.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Drupal</a> and <a href="http://www.joomla.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Joomla</a>. However, I've been reading up on some "next-generation" web app frameworks that claim to approach web development differently. </p> <p>Perhaps the best known example is the <a href="http://www.seaside.st/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Seaside</a> framework, built on the Smalltalk language. From its <a href="http://www.seaside.st/about" rel="nofollow noreferrer">About</a> page, it lists 4 key features:</p> <ol> <li>Programmatic HTML generation</li> <li>Callback-based request handling</li> <li>Embedded components</li> <li>Modal session management</li> </ol> <p>As I'm developing a fairly complex simulation web-app that needs features akin to a desktop-app, like complex interactive forms, task flow, lots of charts and visuals, and UI flexibility and re-use (lots of widgets), Seaside's features 2, 3, and 4 sound quite appealing.</p> <p>Thus I'd like to hear from other (advanced) web developers as to what open-source "next-gen" web app frameworks exist, what makes them "better" than more familiar tools like Django/RoR, and what kind of apps can be built with these newer tools that would be difficult/painful to do with older frameworks, e.g. I understand that Seaside's continuations-based session/state management makes stateful applications much easier than global session variables. How useful does that end up being?</p> <p>Thanks in advance for your experiences and insights!</p>
 

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