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Flask powered CMS - Quokka
- coolnow 13y agoIt would be good to see a site that already runs like, like a demo.
- rochacbruno 13y agoHi, The project is really new, I started some weeks ago. There is no website running yet. In few days I will have a demo running.
- coolnow 13y agoI look forward to it!
- alex_doom 13y agoWasn't there a Quokka sports site back in the bubble days? I really liked that name.
- limmeau 13y agoThere's also www.quoka.de, a classified-ads site in Germany and Austria.
- ljoshua 13y agoAnd I used it for as a codename for a project I was tossing around here on HN a while back as well. I hadn't heard of the animal, but a nice little random project name generator suggested it and I thought it was fun. Cool word, cool animal.
- damian2000 13y agoThis might be the original ... http://www.quokka.com.au/ http://www.quokka.com.au/ classifieds ads, based in Perth. Started as a newspaper.
- goatforce5 13y agoQuokka did some really amazing sites back in the day: http://stamen.com/clients/quokka http://stamen.com/clients/quokka I seem to recall them doing motorsports with tons of live data including biometrics of some of the drivers. Heart rate, etc. I spent the dotcom boom years working for a sports startup that was initially called Pangolin during it's prelaunch phase. I assumed that was a homage to Quokka. Pangolin rebranded itself as Sportal before launching it's consumer sites.
- mjhea0 13y agoremember the nbc olympics - http://www.inventinginteractive.com/2010/05/26/remembering-quokka/ http://www.inventinginteractive.com/2010/05/26/remembering-q...
- h4rrison 13y agoI'm guessing you lived in Perth at some stage? These things live pretty exclusively on Rottnest Island: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quokka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quokka
- suhair 13y agoi am not connected to this project in anyway. just thought the project is interesting. Not sure about whether this one is ready for release or not
- rochacbruno 13y agoI actually live in Brazil, but I like the animal because of happiness. I've never been in Rottnest Island, I really want to go someday to see a Quokka.
- mindprince 13y agoI really liked that they listed the project tree in the README file. I am going to start doing this in my future projects.
- rochacbruno 13y agoI did this because github is slow sometimes for browsing on folders. I always like to take a look at all the project tree to see what it offers and how complex it is. Maybe github can implement a feature "show project tree" would be a nice addition.
- monkmartinez 13y agoMongo???
- rochacbruno 13y agoYes! MongoDB is one of the bests non-relational databases and fits perfectly for dynamic CMS.
- kfk 13y agoI am going to be looking into this. I am building an ecommerce platform in flask and I also started coding a small CMS to handle few things. Let's see. The only thing I am not too sure about is your decision of tying it with a specific DB.
- rochacbruno 13y agoCool, it is open for contributions and an e-commerce module will be great! I started this project because I already work developing CMS using relational databases and there are some things that SQLs gives headaches, schema definition, migrations and denormalization for performance are those things. So I started Quooka as an experiment to get rid of those limitations of SQL databases. Mongo was a natural choice because it was the only one I knew how to work and Flask because it already works well with mongo and mongoengine.
- Narretz 13y agoAt first glance, I read "Flash powered CMS", and was both horrified and curious.
- rochacbruno 13y agoHi! I am the author of Quokka CMS, Thank you @suhair for posting. Quokka is a work in progress, it is in early stage of development but already works for the basic which is user authentication/authorization, article posting ans extending with blueprints. This is not my first CMS project, I am also one of the developers of another CMS made in Django http://github.com/opps http://github.com/opps, Opps is a big project ready for production and running on large audience websites. So I started Quokka as an experiment to implement all the CMS features in a non-relational database, that's why I choose Flask and MongoDB. I think this project will get really serious because I am realizing that MongoDB fits perfectly for dynamic CMS. I am really open for suggestions and contributions. Quokka - The happiest animal in the world and maybe the happiest CMS in the internets. :)
- bsaul 13y agoi understand you wanted to experiment with mongodb, but why moving away from django ? there isn't such a big conceptual difference between the two, except flask has less things. What part of the django stack did you want to build differently ?
- rochacbruno 13y agoI like Django, I work with Django a lot and currently I am developing another product with Django. The only problem is that Django do not play very well with Non-relational databases, and Django has too many things for a small project.
- level09 13y agoAdditional requirements are : passlib, twill, markupsafe after following the instructions I was still unable to login, with invalid password message. registration takes me to a 500 error page as well. I think I will wait until this becomes more developed.
- rochacbruno 13y agoI will open this issue and solve ASAP. thanks for reporting.
- rochacbruno 13y agoAdded extra requirements Fixed the login problem https://github.com/rochacbruno/quokka/commit/321af1e2546f9fba9adb2b6942ce5da3505c6371 https://github.com/rochacbruno/quokka/commit/321af1e2546f9fb... Registrations now works without the need to configure email server (but confirmation email goes to the console by default) Thanks for reporting that issues.
- mjhea0 13y agoi'd love to see some additional apps (err blueprints, perhaps) like a job posting app
- rochacbruno 13y agoYes I have a roadmap for new apps. Poll, Recipes, Feedcrawling, Social messages and Google Analytics integration. Job posting is also a good idea.