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Josi: a new web framework for Node (thatismatt.github.com)
24 points by vier 5847 days ago
5 comments
benatkin 5847 days ago
What are all the Node web frameworks that are being actively developed? Here are the ones I could find:

http://github.com/thatismatt/josi http://github.com/visionmedia/express http://github.com/mde/geddy

These ones haven't seen commits in over a month:

http://github.com/obt/bomberjs http://github.com/simonw/djangode

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alunny 5847 days ago
There are also Fab.js http://github.com/jed/fab (which hasn't seen any updates in a while, but I'm sure it's still being worked on), Pintura http://github.com/kriszyp/pintura and Picard http://github.com/dantebronto/picard

At a lower level of abstractions are the middleware layers Connect http://github.com/extjs/Connect and JSGI http://github.com/kriszyp/jsgi-node

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astrofinch 5847 days ago
Both Node.js and Tornado seem to have scaled for real-time-web stuff in the past:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088699

http://friendfeed.com/

I think I'd try Tornado first myself because of Python's error tracebacks. In my opinion they make debugging significantly easier.

Is there any other software in this space?

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vito 5847 days ago
The example code is a bit unreadable for me: http://i.imgur.com/uMcgo.png
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Detrus 5847 days ago
Yea they really need to change the background behind the code. There are so many new frameworks with unknown user bases and support out there that their website design can be the difference between getting users or not.
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mcantelon 5847 days ago
This doesn't look much different from existing frameworks like Express. I wonder what distinguishes the project?
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zppx 5847 days ago
Express is closer to Sinatra than to a MVC, that's for me is the only difference.
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astrofinch 5847 days ago
It's built on Node.js, which is supposed to make real-time web stuff easier.
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probablycorey 5847 days ago
So is Express http://expressjs.com/
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cmelbye 5847 days ago
Another?... Don't get me wrong, it looks somewhat better than the other frameworks I guess, but really?
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frofro 5847 days ago
I understand that the node community is still very young but hopefully they'll start consolidating around some of the core libraries/frameworks pretty soon. For example, I haven't seen a consensus for the best testing or packaging libraries.
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cloudhead 5847 days ago
There will be many more. At least until something decent comes out.
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