Tina4 - This is not a framework

Overview

Tina4 is the result and culmination of more than 15 years of working with scripted languages where strong typing and coding practices have been left entirely to each developer who writes the code.

Whilst not being a framework it is a structural paradigm for developers to follow in writing their code, keeping the language the hero and the code maintainable.

Quick Start

Use one of the following docker methods to try out Tina4 without having to install anything to your system

PythonPHP

### Windows
docker run -v %cd%:/app tina4stack/python:latest poetry init
docker run -v %cd%:/app tina4stack/python:latest poetry add tina4-python
echo import tina4_python > app.py
docker run -v %cd%:/app -p"7145:7145" tina4stack/python:latest python -u app.py 0.0.0.0:7145

### MacOS & Linux
docker run -v $(pwd):/app tina4stack/python:latest poetry init
docker run -v $(pwd):/app tina4stack/python:latest poetry add tina4-python
echo import tina4_python > app.py
docker run -v $(pwd):/app -p"7145:7145" tina4stack/python:latest python -u app.py 0.0.0.0:7145

### Windows
docker run -v %cd%:/app tina4stack/php:latest composer require tina4stack/tina4php
docker run -v %cd%:/app tina4stack/php:latest composer exec tina4 initialize:run
docker run -v %cd%:/app -p7145:7145 tina4stack/php:latest composer start


### MacOS & Linux
docker run -v $(pwd):/app tina4stack/php:latest composer require tina4stack/tina4php
docker run -v $(pwd):/app tina4stack/php:latest composer exec tina4 initialize:run
docker run -v $(pwd):/app -p7145:7145 tina4stack/php:latest composer start

Philosophy

As we work out solutions for various languages where possible we have included libraries which add low impact to the code. To this end our "framework" attempts to use and follow these basic principles.

Principle of an efficient coding environment

Green coding - the best code is no code
Use of IDE vs Text Editors - good tools are essential for good code
Use of a source code repository - the ability to track code changes and work effictively in a team
Package Management - write modules and libraries where possible for reuse
Light Database Abstractions - most database abstractions are bloated and overengineered
Database Migrations - database changes are treated as code
Templated HTML - promotes reuse and good html structures
Localization - support for different languages
Environment variables - Use of .env files to declare global constants
Inline Testing - tests live where the code is written
Inline Documentation - documentation is done whilst coding
Built in webserver - development environment replications the production experience
Structured code - sustainable code through defined structure
The language is the hero - promote using the language not the framework!

Danger

Tina4 is heavily opinionated, whilst it does not define how you should use it with a language, if you don't understand the paradigm you'd be best off using another framework.

Features

Here is a complete list of features

Phusion Passenger ® & Virtualmin

Tina4 is written to run seemlessly with Phusion Passenger & Virtualmin, you can read more about this under advanced topics when it comes to deployment strategies and architecture.