twillis / spazzer

music collection web app
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new tech stack #26

Open twillis opened 9 years ago

twillis commented 9 years ago

as you can see from this repo.

this is a web app written in python/pyramid

the issues with this are largely deployment to multiple OS's this was fine when it was just a website for me to throw up at parties so someone can get music from me.

to be an app that anyone can run easily python/pyramid is not the greatest. So, what to use?

I've been doing a lot of thinking about this and it seems the best option(and it really pains me to admit this) is node-webkit, which is basically a javascript runtime with a a light version of chrome for the ui. Something similar could be done with firefox instead via xulrunner, but I've never made anything non-trivial work that way.

So a line in the sand I'm drawing is that by demo day, this app will be able to be run on windows/mac/linux the same way lighttable does. http://lighttable.com/

I dont have an answer for mobile yet. which sucks b/c both android and ios use webkit to various degrees but use their own languages for accessing it.