[Development] Crazy Idea

[Mark Constable]

On 2011-10-21 10:10 PM, Dhaivat Pandya wrote:
> This seems like something that's way out there, and may have been
> suggested before and rejected, but, I'm bringing it up anyway. What
> would the Qt community think of a web framework devised around Qt?

Speaking personally I'd love to see...

. a web server similar to lighttpd but 100% based on Qt

. a Qt5/V8 Javascript "engine" similar to NodeJS

. an optional but builtin C++ FastCGI interface for the above

In other words the essential tools for a Qt Server Side JavaScript
solution, with Websocket support, so it can be as both a traditional
webserver or a local backend to a HTML5/QML desktop system.

Why another webserver when lighttpd, nginx, even apache, already exist
as stable codebases? Because none of them allow me to build, develop
and deploy them, and any web based projects, within QtCreator using
CMake and Git. There is currently a complete development disconnect
when deploying a typical HTTP based remote server within a Qt project.

> Qt has all the stuff one needs to build a legitimate web framework,
> connection to a scripting language (PySide, or any language with a C++
> API, such as Lua), Sql libraries, async socket libraries, XML,
> everything. We just need some (okay, not some, a lot) of code to glue
> this all together into a well knit package. I'll await suggestions.

Wouldn't Wt provide a lot of that? http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt