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Using Aurelia for a new website, should I? #148

Closed ronagam closed 9 years ago

ronagam commented 9 years ago

Hi, We are finalizing architecture for a social website that includes profile, profile matching and video chatting. The team likes Aurelia, but I am a bit worried. Website launches in limited beta Sept 2015. Can you try and best answer these questions:

Choice & Benefits • What are the alternatives to Aurelia • What are the benefit we are getting vs. above? • What are the drawbacks (page load time, restricted add-ons etc.)? • How much time do you estimate it will take a developer to become productive on Aurelia?

Technology maturity & stability • Is Aurelia GA (i.e. v1.0 and above)? If not what is the state, alpha/beta and so on. • If above yes. How many live applications are GA with Aurelia? • How many contributions and contributors? • What technology company is backing Aurelia? • Any missing features that you know you need for the pilot and waiting for Aurelia roadmap? • How is the operability and security of Aurelia? • Is it verified that it supports current popular platforms – MAC and Windows Desktop (v7 and up), iPAD (ios 7 and above) and Tablet (Jellybean 4.1 and above) • Is there any website built with Aurelia that I can access??

Mitigation • What are 2 other alternatives we can use • What would be the cost of switching to these technologies – time and dev. effort • What would be the impact on our users if we had to do this after its deployed (graphics or any behavior will change)?

I often use these set of question, and it served me well in taking educated risks. Thanks.

donovanmuller commented 9 years ago

Perhaps this https://github.com/aurelia/framework/issues/74#issuecomment-116808034 will be of some help.

ronagam commented 9 years ago

Thanks, I read through this post and it provides a couple of answers (e.g. backed by... and contributors) but couldn't find anything to answer most other questions.

The1nternet commented 9 years ago

@ronagam I'd suggest building a simple example app with some basic functionality so that you can get a feel for using Aurelia. Aurelia's focus is on a great developer experience, so your team'll love using it, and it's backed by an amazing company and core team, so there's really not any risk in choosing it.

You can see the current version by looking at the package.json (0.12), and some of your other questions, there's no way anyone here could know (like the cost of switching your app to 2 alternative technologies).

Martin-Andersen commented 9 years ago

Try take a look at Meteor https://www.meteor.com