[Chicken-users] Web applications

[Tobia Conforto]

Hello Chicken all-knowers,

I'm about to design a new, very AJAXy web application and I'd like to  
write it in Chicken, plus jQuery on the client side.

What framework/server/storage engine/miscellaneous eggs/deployment  
tactics do you recommend or have worked with in the past?


Here's my limited experience.

I've recently written a simple web forum in Chicken, with just 2  
presentation cgi scripts (view layer), 1 cgi script to receive the  
forms (controller layer), 1 "include" file with the database functions  
(model layer) and another include with miscellaneous utilities.
I've made use of the excellent sxml-tools egg, the decent cgi-util  
egg, and sqlite3 for database storage.
All HTML is generated from s-expressions, using sxml tools.
The CGI scripts are compiled into binaries and run by Apache.

This setup has worked very well for this private forum of mine with 10  
users and 3 cgi pages, but I fear it would not scale well for bigger  
applications, although I wonder by how much, if anybody has any  
experience to share.


I'm going to look into Spiffy next, and the egg repository at large,  
but I thought I'd ask for your real-world experience before making up  
my mind.


Tobia