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Discussion on: New Web Framework?

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Casey Brooks

While this might not be the most efficient for developers, it could be huge for non-developer content managers. Imagine being able to build a website for a client, and they can manage forms with real, structured tables themselves without needing to go to the developers for every new form they need, and without resorting to "Form-builder" plugins which typically use key-value DB schemas for form submissions that are difficult to query or write reports for.

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Gunnar Gissel

That is who I'm thinking of. CMS folks, web designers, regular designers, people with a flowershop and a nephew who is 'good at computers'.

Generating UIs from the backend typically involves a lot of fussing with yaml or xml or json in lots of different files and some light coding. Big steep slope to climb.