Thanks for that info. I am about to start a new project which is also my first. So i would like to go with py4web. But i am nervous about not having good documentation for py4web.
Is the old documentation and videos etc that you have made (which are great - thanks) still mostly relevant? On Monday, 16 December 2019 03:39:14 UTC+6:30, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > Good question. > > web2py and py4web share a lot of libraries and their syntax is very > similar. Both will be maintained. > web2py was born in 2007 and it is mostly for Python 2 although it now > works well with python 3. > > As a rule of thumb, if you are porting a Python 2 project to Python 3, use > web2py. > If you are starting from scratch, use py4web. > > py4web is ~20x faster. Code is much easier to read. > They are both solid for production (except none works with py3.8 but we > are fixing that) > They share pydal, templates, multi-app structure, ticket system. > The request object and routing mechanism is different and py4web uses the > bottlepy ones. > They both have an internationalization/pluralization system and the py4web > one is better but it lacks a UI (building one would be a good 1 day > project). > They both have Auth but they are incompatible. The py4web is more modular > but less tested. (fixing those bugs is a priority, but need testers) > web2py has SQLFORM, py4web has py4web.utils.form.Form. They are pretty > much equivalent but the latter does not support fields of type list:* (+) > web2py has SQLFORM.grid and SQLFORM.smartgrid, py4web has Vue component > <mtable> They are pretty much equivalent but the latter does not support > fields of type list:* (+) > > (+) indicates things that are missing but we have no plan to add them. Th > world is moving to single page apps (vue, angular, react, etc.) and with > py4web we wanted to move away from generating complex HTML serverside > because it does not scale to complex projects. If you need tables and > complex interfaces, you should implement them in vue/angular/react/etc. So > we have no plans to add that functionality. What is considered good > practice has changed. > > Massimo > > > > > > > > > > On Thursday, 12 December 2019 06:17:05 UTC-8, icodk wrote: >> >> Should I use Web2py or py4web for a brand new project ? >> What is still missing from py4web ? >> Can I debug with pycharm ? >> I need all the great authentication I got with web2py : Registration,pass >> change, groups mail, etc. >> smartgreed will be very nice to have or similar. >> Stability ? >> Can it be deployed with nginx and pg ? >> Thanks >> >> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/0cc1fd87-a484-4bcc-9fed-745e449cae2b%40googlegroups.com.
