IndyPy Web Framework Shootout

IndyPy is having a web framework shootout to compare several popular python based web frameworks. The goal is to see how the frameworks compare from a developer perspective.

ToDo app details

Create an app using the following specifications:

• Login is required to be able to use the app
• Add a todo list item
• Todo list item consists of
  • Title
  • Tags
  • Due date
• Edit a todo list item
• Complete a todo list item (delete)
• View list of todo items
• Sort list of todo items based on date by default
• Ability to sort list by title
• View listing of todo items by tag

This will show off the following features: CRUD, MVC, authentication, authorization and data storage.

Frameworks

• Bottle
• Django
• Flask
• Pyramid

Any other frameworks want to represent?

Future Shootouts

In future installments, the apps could be given more features such as:

• Batching
• Configuration panel
• Expose an API
• iCal feed
• Lists
• Location / context
• Notes
• Priorities
• Recurrence
• Search
• Sharing
• Time estimation
• Time zone handling