Reblocks is a fork of the Weblocks web framework written by Slava Akhmechet and maintained by Scott L. Burson and Olexiy Zamkoviy.
Some time ago I (Alexander Artemenko) found this old Weblocks and liked its idea of building web applications out of widgets. But the framework's code was complex and hard to change. Thus I decided to refactor it into a smaller core plus separate libraries implementing more advanced features.
For a few years this refactored code lived in the repository https://github.com/40ants/weblocks and
it was possible to install it from Ultralisp only. I didn't publish it
to Quicklisp to not break sites using the old version of Weblocks. But in January 2022
I decided to rename the ASDF system to "reblocks" to make it installable from
Quicklisp under this name.
- Application pages are built from "widgets".
- All business logic can be implemented in Common Lisp on the server-side.
- The framework's code is separated by functionality into separate packages.
- The project now has hyperlinked documentation with code snippets and embedded interactive demos.
The framework's API is still under active development. All significant changes are
described in the ChangeLog. You can add the ChangeLog page
to your RSS reader to be notified of new releases.
These features are present in the old-school Weblocks version but were removed
from the core of Reblocks. Some of them might be implemented as separate ASDF
systems.
- Views
- Templates
- Forms
- Continuation based dialogs
You can read about these tools in the Removed Features section.
To learn how to use Reblocks to build a simple single-page application, proceed to the
Quickstart section.
To learn how a real-world application can be built, inspect Ultralisp's code:
https://github.com/ultralisp/ultralisp
- In case of any bugs, please create an issue on GitHub.
- If you have some ideas to share or want to discuss a feature request, use GitHub Discussions.