Create a small demo application using Shunter

[andrewmee]

Should have a small back end application and sample Shunter-based front end that someone can easily download, run, and play with.

[andrewmee]

We're discussing creating multiple (3 or so) backend applications which all use the same single shunter-based front-end.

This would demonstrate how a backend system is integrated, and the fact that shunter is language-agnostic.

Ideas for what the small application would do include a todo app, or perhaps RSS aggregator.

Key features:

• Common/well-used languages
• Small - easy to browse
• Easy and quick to download and run

[rowanmanning]

We should probably standardise a data store for the applications too, I was thinking SQLite because it's pretty ubiquitous and zero-configuration.

[rowanmanning]

I can attest that an RSS aggregator is pretty complicated compared to a TODO app

[romulodl]

I think the important would be to show how easy is to switch the backend technology without affect the frontend and show that one could run an app with another section running in another language (e. g. a publishing platform in ruby with a blog section in php.)

Because the first thing some devs ask is: why I would add node.js to my stack?

[rowanmanning]

We've come up with a specification for the example applications, which will be a list of good lunch places around the Kings Cross area. The application will not have a database, and each will instead get data from local JSON files.

The application will consist of two templates: a home page which lists the venues, and a venue page which includes detailed information on an individual venue. There will be no data entry – a focus on presenting data plays up Shunter's strengths and reduces the complexity of each back end.

[rowanmanning]

There's an example of the expected JSON starting to form in the Shunter example application

[andrewmee]

There are several such example backends here: https://github.com/shunterjs