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Proposed direction for Monk 1.0

Goals

• Position Monk as a 'fat-free Rails alternative' for people hoping to create applications fast
• Acquire more users and get them acquainted with simpler, less-abstract way of doing web apps

Approach

• Go from nothing to working-app in 3 minutes. Make it easy for people to get started: not just in doing the procedures, but with understanding the documentation as well
• Make it to be more user-friendly to acquire more users

Improve user experience -- command line

• Improve the output of the bare 'monk' command to be less intimidating (working on this)
• Add more 'monk help [command]' long docs (working on this)
• Check error messages if they are friendly enough -- make sure they suggest courses of action to the users

Improve user experience -- monk skeleton

• Add a "Getting started" guide to the readme
• Make sure same info is in the default http://localhost:4567/ page (done)

Monk 1.0 website

• UVP: "The non-framework approach" without all the heavy work
• More value propositions should be geared towards how it's fast to create apps that are small in size
• Comparisons of bulk, requests-per-sec between existing frameworks

Documentation

• (NB: these have to be in the website as well)
• A "Getting started" guide
• A "common recipes" guide (say, how to use Monk with DataMapper; how to add thor tasks; etc)
• An explanation on the Monk skeleton directory structure

Monk 1.0 skeleton -- wishful thinking :)

• Decouple from Ohm -- make it easy to work any ORM into it