Hanselminutes Podcast 270 - Nancy, Sinatra and the Explosion of .NET Micro Web Frameworks with Andreas Håkansson
Scott chats with open source developer Andreas Håkansson about his .NET micro web framework called Nancy which is inspired by a Ruby framework called Sinatra. Why do we need frameworks like this? What kinds of sites and services can they support and how do they relate to ASP.NET?
Links from the Show
- Nancy - Google Group
- NancyFx Home Page
- Nancy on GitHub - A Sinatra inspired web framework for the .NET platform
- Andreas on Twitter @thecodejunkie
- Introducing Nancy, a lightweight web framework inspired by Sinatra
- Nancy - Video Presentation
- "A .NET Sinatra Clone is the New Black."
- An Explosion of Alternative Web Frameworks
Hello World Example
public class Module : NancyModule
{
public Module()
{
Get["/greet/{name}"] = x => {
return string.Concat("Hello ", x.name);
};
}
}
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Since Nancy can run on-top of WCF, you can still leverage a lot of the WCF stack "below" Nancy. See the beauty? ;)
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Anybody can create their own mini-framework to assist in the completion of whatever niche task the developer thinks is in dire need of a new solution, but I wish there was more expansion on the idea of Nancy as a service end point.
I know Microsoft realized a long time ago that there was going to be some cross over between WCF and ASP.NET MVC, but it seems like to do some simple RESTful POX services does require high "ceremony". Set-up of endpoints and actions can be easy once you have configured your WCF services site (but then you lose out on a lot of the cool things MVC offers). If you go with MVC, you really have to roll a lot of your own foundation coding to mimic some WCF goodies, so either way you have to do a lot to accomplish a task that can only be higher in demand these days with every client-sided coding library needing AJAX requests/JSON responses or just to expose data to alternative clients like handsets.
I do see value in a project that would permit rapid prototyping for RESTful services.