Original author(s) Written in Python | Developer(s) Divmod Operating system | |
Initial release May 6, 2004; 12 years ago (2004-05-06) Stable release 0.11.1 / June 21, 2014; 2 years ago (2014-06-21) | ||
Nevow (pronounced like the French nouveau) is a Python web application framework originally developed by the company Divmod. Template substitution is achieved via a small Tag Attribute Language, which is usually embedded in on-disk XML templates, though there is also a pure-Python domain-specific language called Stan, for expressing this markup programmatically. Nevow integrates well with Twisted, a framework for event-driven programming.
Nevow had 960 unit tests as of June 2008, and was deployed on several high-profile web sites, most notably the official Python site.
As of mid-2010, Divmod went out of business, causing development work on Nevow to all but cease, and in 2011 its homepage was no longer accessible. There's a project on Launchpad, hosting the source code of Divmod including the source code of the Nevow project.
Athena
Athena is a Nevow component which facilitates bi-directional, asynchronous communication between the Python and Javascript portions of a web application in the form of remote procedure calls. This technique is typically called Ajax or Comet, though Nevow's implementation predates both of these labels. Athena also includes an inheritance-based Javascript object system, which forms the basis of a client-side widget abstraction, module system and in-browser unit testing kit.