Nancy
Hello all, I’m hoping everyone has had a good week. Tis Thursday folks, the weekend’s a’comin’! I also realized that I barely blog about anything C#, which is a shame since the blog’s tagline implies I should, so this week I’m going to talk about Nancy. I’ll take a rain check on the Alchemy thing though… NancyFx or Nancy for short is a lightweight, server-side web framework for the .NET framework. Basically, it comes into play when you’re trying to build a web-application with server-side smarts, such as a data-bound application (where data is stored, queried and retrieved), building web APIs (web apps returning XML or JSON data in response to requests) and things like that. Granted, there are tons of neat frameworks to do this for every language – there’s Django for Python, there’s ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC for the dotNet framework itself, etc. However, ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC are rather heavy and (for me) rather difficult and clunky to deploy on non-Windows hosts. If you’re going t