The Lino Book

Welcome to the Lino Book, the developer documentation about the Lino framework. For documentation about hosting Lino applications see the Lino Hosting Guide. For non-technical documentation about Lino see the Lino Community Guide.

• Welcome
  • How to contact us
• About Lino
  • Why should a developer choose Lino?
  • How to make money with Lino
  • Components of the Lino framework
  • Lino and Django
  • Lino has its own user management
  • Lino compared to other frameworks
  • About the Extensions Library
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Features
  • Lino is a big beast
  • Think Python
  • Separate business logic and front end
  • Warning
• Public demo sites
• Newbie Guide
  • Learning resources
  • Which editor to use
  • Python crash courses
  • Relational databases
• Developer Guide
  • Getting started
  • Diving into Lino
  • Writing your own Lino application
  • Getting acquaintained
  • Testing Lino applications
  • Lino internals
• Contributor Guide
  • Before getting started
  • Get started
  • Basics
  • Testing
  • Internationalization
  • Drafts
  • Internals
  • Other
  • Thanks to
• User Guide
  • Lino basics
  • Managing users via the web interface
  • Template designer API
  • Using Appy POD templates
  • Help
  • Managing your backups
• Specs
  • Core plugins
  • Plugins of the Extensions Library
  • Application specs
  • Topic guides
  • Technical stuff
  • Lino in other languages
• API
  • The lino package
  • The lino_xl package
  • The lino_react package
  • The lino_book package
  • Lino applications covered by the book
  • The commondata packages
• Changes
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • Old changes in Lino
• News