Eliom is a framework for building client/server Web and mobile applications in OCaml.
It transforms OCaml into a multi-tier language, making it possible to implement both the server and client parts of a Web and mobile app as a single program.
This simplifies a lot the communication between server and client. Applications can run on any Web browser or mobile device (iOS, Android), saving from the need to develop one version for each platform.
Eliom is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Support for reactive pages (generated on server or client).
- Advanced session mechanism.
- Server to client communication.
- Continuation based Web programming.
- Provides high level expressive concepts that address the needs of Web developers. This allows programming complex behaviour in very few lines of code.
- Write a client-server application as a single program, using a multi-tier extension of OCaml.
- Write safe and bug-free applications. To improve security, it takes charge of many security issues itself. To reduce the number of bugs, it uses the very powerful type system of the OCaml language to check many properties of the application at compile time: well-formedness of HTML pages, types of page parameters, absence of broken links, etc.
Website: eliom.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Vincent Balat, Jérôme Vouillon, Grégoire Henry, Pierre Chambart, Benedikt Becker, Boris Yakobowski, Hugo Heuzard, Raphaël Proust, Stéphane Glondu, Gabriel Kerneis, Denis Berthod, Jaap Boender, Simon Castellan, Mauricio Fernandez, Archibald Pontier, Simon Castellan, Jacques-Pascal Deplaix
License: GNU Lesser General Public License with openssl linking exception
Eliom is written in OCaml. Learn OCaml with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| morph | Tiny web framework for Reason and OCaml |
| ocaml-webmachine | REST toolkit for OCaml |
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