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Technology stack #5

Open whytester opened 8 years ago

whytester commented 8 years ago

List here what technologies we are interesting in learning and can ten look at using to build a js101 app.

To get the ball rolling -

node
REACT

PaulGrimshaw commented 8 years ago

I guess Javascript stack goes without saying ;-)

My vote (inline with Graham's above):

Node server - not sure if anything else really exists as server side javascript?
React JS client - most of us want to learn it, has good reviews and support. Also supports server side rendering which could be useful. We could also look at React Native to create apps. The React FLUX pattern seems to be widely used for big applications.
MongoDB - works great from node.js, as document structures BSON (basically JSON). Also has GIS capabilities for maps.
Would be fun to try to get some realtime stuff in too, using websockets (sockets.io looks good)
Hosting on linux server somewhere? We'd need root access I guess to install the needed packages.

Thoughts welcome!

katjad commented 8 years ago

Sounds good to me, and things I want to learn, too. Maybe we should try out different things with little sample projects. Express is a good (and most used, I think) framework to create a server, routing etc with Node.

With React, wonder whether we will need it for all of the views. Could perhaps just use it for certain components.

I like doing stuff on the server and have Linode and DigitalOcean vps, but have only basic knowledge. Setting things up ourselves might be tricky, could use a managed service where you just select components for environment, like AWS or Openshift. It depends how much people want to look into it I guess.

Gicela commented 8 years ago

We could also look into having a free trial with Google cloud. I have not used it before but we could set up a codeHub account? https://cloud.google.com/free-trial/?hl=en_US&_ga=1.217137555.440975208.1449664636

PaulGrimshaw commented 8 years ago

For the MongoDB we can host it in MongoLAB which I've used before. It's free for up to 500mb, and we can set a cron to back it up quite easily (I've done all that before).

My preference would be to go for a bare bones system, i.e. build it up from a clean ubuntu instance. Nice to have an understanding of all the component parts, rather than starting a premade stack.

katjad commented 8 years ago

My preference would be to go for a bare bones system, i.e. build it up from a clean ubuntu instance. Nice to have an understanding of all the component parts, rather than starting a premade stack.

Fair enough, I am interested in it too actually :)