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You have a good point. We'll write a lot more technical detail over the coming weeks on our blog. I'm also writing a guest post (technical) for the MongoDB blog

You have a good point. We'll write a lot more technical detail over the coming weeks on our blog. I'm also writing a guest post (technical) for the MongoDB blog, so expect a lot more to come out soon. The architecture: A very small PHP MVC framework (5% or so the size of Zend Framework last I checked). I started developing the earliest version of it ~6 years ago, around the time Rails picked up steam. I loved Rails and Ruby, but with so much invested in PHP (10 years back then) I decided to implement Rails-like patterns instead. Those patterns have matured a lot, but I stick to idea that the framework should be very light itself. Happy to answer more specific questions. Also, I'm really excited about the idea of porting the framework/platform to languages like Python and Ruby. I think it's possible because it's so light weight, but time will tell. People might call me crazy for that one, but I've been dreaming about a multi-language platform for years.

julien_c 14y ago
What about frontend? Are you using an MVC framework?
- ericingram 14y ago
  It is an MVC framework per se, but it's new and unique to this platform. It's very light, therr are about ~10 core classes. It also uses Smarty 3 (which is a big improvement over Smart 2), but the template system can be swapped out for pure PHP or another package for those prefer.
  - julien_c 14y ago
    Sorry I wasn't clear enough: do you use any JS MVC framework, like Backbone etc. ?
    - ericingram 14y ago
      Ahh I see, there is no UI framework, just a simple list/view pattern. Views are loaded in HTML parts from the server (old school). I would like to see what people come up with using a framework like Backbone. One of the driving ideas is that people will develop different versions of an Admin interface. What you see in the demo is just a template, like any front-end template, so creating one with Backbone would be an interesting project.

julien_c 14y ago

What about frontend? Are you using an MVC framework?

ericingram 14y ago
It is an MVC framework per se, but it's new and unique to this platform. It's very light, therr are about ~10 core classes. It also uses Smarty 3 (which is a big improvement over Smart 2), but the template system can be swapped out for pure PHP or another package for those prefer.
- julien_c 14y ago
  Sorry I wasn't clear enough: do you use any JS MVC framework, like Backbone etc. ?
  - ericingram 14y ago
    Ahh I see, there is no UI framework, just a simple list/view pattern. Views are loaded in HTML parts from the server (old school). I would like to see what people come up with using a framework like Backbone. One of the driving ideas is that people will develop different versions of an Admin interface. What you see in the demo is just a template, like any front-end template, so creating one with Backbone would be an interesting project.