[framework%|%Frameworks] with which you can write web servers/applications in Tcl.


** A list of web frameworks for Tcl **

%| Name | License | Requirements | Status | Features | Description |%
| [ActiWeb] | | [XOTcl] | Production-ready, maintained | | XOTcl based with HTTP server, client, and web framework. |
| [ATWF] | ? | Tcl 8.6, [TDBC] | ? | ? | An [MVC] web framework project. |
| [EmberWeb] | BSD | Tcl 8.5 | Work in progress, active | Routing. |  A simple plain Tcl Web framework for small systems. |
| [FastWeb] | proprietary commercial | ? | Discontinued | | Appears to be dead. |
| [HereTcl] | ? | Tcl 8.6 | ? | | An effort to strip down Wub to its essentials. |
| [jimhttp] | MIT | [Jim Tcl] | Prototype | Pure Jim Tcl HTTP server, [HTTP routing%|%routing], templates, [JSON] generation and parsing, HTML DSL, persistent key-value storage and static variable persistence. | A microframework prototype modelled after frameworks like Sinatra and Flask. |
| [Mel's Internet Toolkit] | ? | [cgi.tcl] | Production-ready, last updated in 2010 | 
| [OpenACS] | GNU GPL | [AOLserver] or [NaviServer], a database | Production-ready, maintained | | The original Tcl web framework. Emphasises building community-oriented web sites and comes with many pre-built packages. Mature and very stable. | 
| http://www.rivetweb.org/%|%Rivetweb%|% | Apache | [Rivet] | Production-ready | plugin handlers can be written separately for different sources of data (DBMS, Web services etc) and different formats/protocols (JSON, simple text...) | XML-based templating engine |
| [Spindle] | ? | [XOTcl] | Alpha, last updated in 2011 | | An MVC-style web framework. |
| [Tanzer] | MIT | [TclOO] | Last updated 2015-12-18. | Provides a pattern-based URI router, file service, CGI, SCGI and HTTP dispatcher, and can run as a pure HTTP or SCGI service. | tanzer exists to provide an asynchronous web framework and service leveraging the inherent qualities of Tcl's event loop. | 
| [Track] | MIT | Tcl 8.5 | Work in progress, active | Routing, request handling, response generation. Extensible | Inspired by Phoenix provides separate libraries to create request -> response pipelines. |
| [WebApp%|%Tcl Web Application Framework] | MIT | [Rivet%|%RivetCGI] | Production-ready but still in development, last updated in 2011 | | |
| [Wapp] | BSD | Tcl 8.6 | In production as of 2018, maintained | Complete app in a single TCL file, small easy-to-learn API, CGI or SCGI or HTTP | A simple, lightweight yet robust and secure framework for writing web applications implemented as a single file of TCL |
| [Wibble] | The Tcl/Tk license | Tcl 8.6 | ? | HTTP server, routing (zone handlers), [WebSocket], [JSON-RPC], [SSL]  | Provides routing via zone handlers. HTTP requests and responses are [dict]s. |
| [Woof!] | BSD | Tcl 8.6 | Production-ready, maintained | Work over the [CGI] or [SCGI] protocols with Microsoft IIS, Apache, Lighttpd and other web servers. Provides infrastructure for views and controllers in a class-based [MVC] architecture, routing (URLs mapped to controller classes), pluggable template engines, responsive design, themable, page localization.  | An MVC web framework inspired by Ruby on Rails. |
| [Wub] | BSD 3-Clause | Tcl 8.6 | Production-ready, maintained | | A pure-Tcl web server and framework that uses [coroutine%|%coroutines]. Runs this wiki. | 


** Discussion **

[dbohdan] 2014-10-03: The table's current format is tentative. Feel free to add new columns for data that you think will help compare the frameworks, e.g., columns for individual features.

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20oct2014

Gavino! You Forgot a few:


   * aolserver
   * ossweb
   * naviserver
   * apache rivet
   * apache websh
   * [castle]


** See also **
   * [application server]
   * [Web servers which provide native Tcl support]

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