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.

• 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