Prontotype is a lightweight, server-side framework to help you quickly build interactive, data-driven HTML prototypes.

See http://prontotype.allmarkedup.com for setup instructions and documentation. Prontotype makes heavy use of Twig and YAML so becoming familiar with them will help you greatly in mastering everything Prontotype has to offer.

• Quickly build linked, multi-page prototypes with realistic URLs
• Define reusable chunks of HTML to make prototype-wide updates quick and easy
• Separate your layouts from your content using powerful template inheritance
• Mock-up everything from simple login behaviours to complex role-based authentication scenarios
• Use YAML or CSV files to define data structures that will be accessible throughout your prototype
• Write CSS using LESS and have it automatically compiled for use in your protoype
• Give your pages IDs so you can move them around easily without breaking links
• Use whatever frontend prototyping framework you like (Twitter Bootstrap is included but anything can be used)
• Auto-generate navigation, forms and more using in-built macros
• And plenty more...

• Linux-based web server
• A web server like Apache (optionally with mod_rewrite or equivalent enabled) or Nginx
• PHP version 5.3.1+

Prontotype is still very young! The following is a list of things (in no particular order) that are on the to-do list for the near-future:

• An example site to better show off all the features of Prontotype.
• Extension system to allow you to model more complex behaviours that need server-side logic.
• Page scraping capability so that you can populate pages in your prototype with content dynamically scraped from pages of sites.
• XML/JSON feed parser to allow pages to be dynamically populated with data that exists as JSON or XML feeds.
• The ability to specify contextual notes and have their display state toggled easily on and off.
• WURFL integration to allow for prototyping of server-side device detection.
• Coffeescript compiliation to work in a similar way to the LESS compilation does.
• More macros for Bootstrap components, dummy images services etc.
• Unit tests to make sure everything is working ok!