Good job!! Can’t wait to give it a go. Since you started work on this 10 years ago, has anything like it emerged in the Node ecosystem? What is most similar framework to Citizen right now and what makes it different?
I don't know what's out there that's similar to citizen, honestly. I didn't set out to create competition for existing frameworks; I just built the stuff I found useful for my own projects and think it's finally at a point where others might find it useful also.
Basically, I wasn't a fan of what was available 10 years ago, so I built what I needed and didn't pay much attention to what others were doing.
One of my fears in sharing it widely was getting a response like, "You're about 5 years late, frameworks X, Y, and Z do all these things already." But based on some of the comments, it seems like citizen offers something that others don't.
What I like about citizen is that it provides enough structure to get started, keep my code organized, and focus on what I'm building as opposed to how, while remaining flexible and hands-on enough for me to feel like I'm actually writing code and not just gluing together everybody else's code.
Basically, I wasn't a fan of what was available 10 years ago, so I built what I needed and didn't pay much attention to what others were doing.
One of my fears in sharing it widely was getting a response like, "You're about 5 years late, frameworks X, Y, and Z do all these things already." But based on some of the comments, it seems like citizen offers something that others don't.
What I like about citizen is that it provides enough structure to get started, keep my code organized, and focus on what I'm building as opposed to how, while remaining flexible and hands-on enough for me to feel like I'm actually writing code and not just gluing together everybody else's code.