Guillotina
A re-imagined asynchronous back end compatible with Plone's RestAPI, combining the best ideas from Plone, Zope, Pyramid, and Django.
Inspired by the Best
Guillotina is a modern, asynchronous back end designed for building high-performance, horizontally scaling JavaScript applications. It was built on the lessons learned from these great open source projects.
- Plone and Zope’s hierarchical data model and security model
- Pyramid’s decorator-based auto-discovery application configuration syntax
- Django’s global application settings style syntax
- Zope’s component architecture for building robustly customizable applications
- JSON Schema
Guillotina is a Rest Data API framework. It is ideal for integrating with modern JavaScript applications.
Why Use Guillotina?
Guillotina has all the features you'd expect from a modern back end.
- Superior performance with AsyncIO
- Ideal for websockets and microservice architectures
- Designed to make your JavaScript engineers happy
- Adapts to any content type payload
- Hierarchical object model maps to URLs and can manage a very large number of objects
- Granular, multidimensional security system
Try It!
You can get started by building a single page Guillotina app.
Front-end teams will love to work with Guillotina. Users will love the performance.
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