The Lino Book

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

This website is meant to be read like a book, in sequence. Use the "next" and "previous" links for navigation. Feel free to jump to linked pages, but don't get lost into details. The Lino Book should be interesting and understandable for any motivated Python developer with at least basic knowledge. But it is only work in progress and we count on you as a reader to help us. Please let us know whenever you stumble over a section that does not satisfy the goal of this book.

• Welcome
• About Lino
  • Components of the Lino framework
  • Why should a developer choose Lino?
  • Lino and Django
  • Lino has its own user management
  • Lino compared to other frameworks
  • About the Extensions Library
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Features
  • Lino is not easy to learn
  • Think Python
  • Separate business logic and front end
  • Writing new front ends
• Demo sites
• Developer Guide
  • Getting started
  • Diving into Lino
  • Getting acquaintained
• Contributor Guide
  • Get started
  • Basics
  • Drafts
• Administrator Guide
  • Installation
  • Maintenance
  • Printing
  • Other
• User Guide
  • Lino basics
  • Managing users
  • Template designer API
  • Help
  • Managing your backups
• Newbies corner
  • Before reading this guide
  • Learning resources
  • Python crash courses
• Specs
  • Core plugins
  • Plugins of the Extensions library
  • Application specs
  • Topic guides
  • Technical stuff
• API
  • The lino package
  • The lino-xl package
  • The lino-book package
  • Maintained Lino applications
  • The commondata packages
• Changes
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • Old changes in Lino
• News