Okay - as a person that recently made the transition: Flask,Jinja2 + bootstrap + learn python functools.wraps Flask just makes the dispatch and routing. Jinja

Okay - as a person that recently made the transition: Flask,Jinja2 + bootstrap + learn python functools.wraps Flask just makes the dispatch and routing. Jinja templates are very close to smarty. You can make a site runing in a second. Also a benefit of using flask is that you have ready WSGI app that you can put on gevent or tornado. If some of your output is prematurely truncated if you are behind HAProxy - check tornado keep alive settings. (not relevant but took me 2 days to figure it out)