Create great web apps faster

That's it. That's the goal of TurboGears. That and to make it easier. The two goals are to create web apps faster and easier. And more fun. The three goals are to...

How does TurboGears do it?

More than the sum...

...of its parts!

TurboGears takes the best components available and combines them into one easy-to-install, documented whole. TurboGears includes parts that join the pieces together and make them work together seamlessly, but doesn't obscure each included project. This allows you to take advantage of all existing documentation, articles, mailing lists and other resources that have built up in the communities for each project.

From frontend to backend:

Now that you know a bit about the parts of TurboGears, read more about how TurboGears ties it all together.

But, wait! There's more!

If TurboGears were a movie and the four projects above were the main actors, we'd still need key grips, caterers and the like. Here are some of the other bits of infrastructure needed for TurboGears:

Plays well with others!

The TurboGears Project Philosophy is all about building on the work of great open source projects, not replacing or supplanting them.

All parts of TurboGears are released under liberal open source licenses that allow for use in both non-commercial and commercial projects. Whether your work is open source or closed source, TurboGears is free for your use.

The complete detail is on the license page.

1.0 is coming soon!

TurboGears is new, but will not take long to reach a stable 1.0 state, given the solid projects that it is built upon. Read more about the development status.