Investigate Backend Tech (CMS)

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Investigate Backend Tech (CMS) #1

Closed iamnbutler closed 9 years ago

iamnbutler commented 9 years ago

Node vs Rails vs PHP, joomla vs wordpress etc.

iamnbutler commented 9 years ago

MEAN is one option: http://mean.io/#!/

rosszurowski commented 9 years ago

Limitations:

Needs to have a way for users to get content in there easily (rich text editor?)
Needs to be fast

rosszurowski commented 9 years ago

Koa was the Node framework mentioned within the meeting.

iamnbutler commented 9 years ago

Rails is an option:

Simple security
Lots of plugins easy to use
Well supported

iamnbutler commented 9 years ago

I think it may be worth not dismissing using Parse right away. The getting started guide makes it look very simple to work with data: https://parse.com/docs/js/guide#hosting

I'm going to dig into it further.

rosszurowski commented 9 years ago

It looks like it's just an ORM/data-store. I think with Parse we'd still need to write a back-end of some kind. Mind confirming/denying this?

Also, with Parse, would we be able to run custom queries (say, for analytics)?

iamnbutler commented 9 years ago

Parse is built as an analytics platform, so I'm sure getting custom analytics wouldn't be an issue. Your first question is what I'm trying to figure out.

iamnbutler commented 9 years ago

So with Parse out of the picture I'd probably be leaning towards Rails. Any additional thoughts?

rosszurowski commented 9 years ago

I've been exploring Node/Koa and I think it might work better than I let on in the meeting. Putting together a little demo for when we meet next week. We can evaluate then?

iamnbutler commented 9 years ago

:+1:

iamnbutler commented 9 years ago

Re:API. If we did go with rails, this might be useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36M2BSA2LYk

rosszurowski commented 9 years ago

Going with Node/Koa.