TurboGears Review

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Pros

Pro
Starts as a microframework and scales up to a fullstack solution

Allows developers to build quick, simple web prototypes or scale up to create complex web applications.

Pro
A powerful and flexible Object Relational Mapper (ORM) with real multi-database support

SQLAlchemy is a powerful ORM which is highly regarded in the Python community. TurboGears' ORM is built with SQLAlchemy, which gives it a great deal of flexibility and power.

Pro
Support for Horizontal data partitioning (aka, sharding)

TurboGears allows for horizontal data partitioning, which allows the division of logical datatabases into smaller elements.

Pro
Built in extensibility Pluggable Applications and standard WSGI components

Allows for creating extendable Pluggable Applications which extend the framework itself through endpoints provided by TurboGears.

Pro
Validated and compile time checked template engine

The template engine is XHTML based and so is validated for errors when compiled to HTML. You will never serve a broken page again due to a forgotten close tag.

Cons

Con
The great extensibility can feel overwhelming

Sometimes TurboGears' extensibility and feeling of having different options for doing a single thing can feel overwhelming and as if writing everything from scratch.