Requesting inputs on a different way to build smaller gaelyk apps

[Kunal Dabir]

Hello gaelyk users and experts,

I had been working on a script, which has turned into a project now (https://github.com/kdabir/glide ), to help me work with smallish gaelyk app (like my homepage kunaldabir.appspot.com etc.).

While gaelyk template project provides excellent start, for simple website'ish projects, java webapp structure and the xml noise is a sometimes hindrance for non java background (web) developers.

What glide does is cut that noise off with simple defaults (while being still configurable). The only files your project is required to have is your web content (something like static html or php webapps). Plus there are some more goodies like preconfigured sitemesh etc.

I have created 4 minimal examples (https://github.com/kdabir/glide/tree/master/samples) to give an idea of what I mean here. Each dir in the samples is a glide project and can be run locally and deployed to GAE.

Start with the `news` project a simple one filer to get sense of what I mean by no config noise. `expense` and `blog` take few steps ahead but are still very very small.

To run a glide project, just cd into the app directory and fire the 'glide' command.

Steps to install glide are mentioned in the README. It should be fairly straight forward if you have java/git/gae already installed. (if you dont use git, you can directly download the zip and extract it https://github.com/kdabir/glide/archive/master.zip)

I look forward to feedback on the project.

And thanks for being such a wonderful community.

Regards,

Kunal

PS: this is nowhere near what an ideal codebase would look like. As it started out as a script there were no test. I am refactoring it now.

[Vladimír Oraný]

Hi Kunal,

Very interesting concept!  Would be nice to see it distributed by GVM.

That's kind of tool I've always wanted!

Thanks for creating it!

Vladimír

Dne 19.5.2013 17:06 "Kunal Dabir" <kunal...@gmail.com> napsal(a):

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[Kunal Dabir]

I have created a site to include some basic documentation and installer. 

http://glide-gae.appspot.com/

Looking for more feedback.

Regards,

Kunal