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Build a Christmas List with Martini

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Does anyone have any comparisons of Martini and Flask/Bottle or Sinatra? It would be interesting to compare performance, library support, and syntax of these (seemingly similar) micro-frameworks.

From what I've seen, Go lang when used with a Framework, returns somewhat comparable performance to Node.js

This should give you a rough idea: (Revel is a Go based framework here)

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r5&hw=i7...

I think it's only fair to compare Go with a framework with Node.js with a framework. At that comparison, Revel is a little more than twice as fast as Express

Thanks for the Revel/Express comparison, do you have any links to support that claim?

Author here. One question I often get about Martini is how to hook it up to a database. I hope this post helps explain the Martini workflow a bit more!

In the event you feel like answering, most martini examples I have seen instruct us to execute `go run main.go`. Is that the "right" way to run martini? Shouldn't I compile my martini app first?

`go run` compiles your app already. In the case that you have multiple files in your package you will need to run `go build`

This is not the recommended way to run Go applications, including those using Martini. Use "go build" or "go install" to build a binary and then execute the binary.

I'm not familiar with Martini, but it looks like DB() is mapping a connection to the "advent" db based on the idea I'm asking for a mgo.Database. It makes me wonder how I might have multiple databases used by my server - maybe if advent lists and user logins were in different databases or something?

Christmas lists should be written using PenAndPaper.

You can create a wishlist in about a minute using absolutely zero lines of code.

Here's a great tutorial on how you can get started with PenAndPaper.

http://studenthacks.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/thesis-pa...

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