[tbassetto]

I like this kind of feedback and I am happy to see one on the front-page :)

Shameless plug: I am also an expat, I moved to Oslo from Paris a few months ago. Not because of the economy (I am a front-end developer, I am lucky to have a lot of opportunities anywhere) but because my wife and me wanted to live abroad and unfortunately we weren't able to find a job in Oil & Gas risks analysis for her in California ;)

Turns out that it was the best decision I ever made (after my wedding of course). I would recommend to anyone who could afford it to find a job in another country. Obviously your will immerse yourself into a new culture better than if you visit just for the holidays. Who knew that from Oslo you could take public transportation and be at an alpine ski station in less than 45min? Or that with the same ticket you could take the ferry to one of the many fjord islands? Even more shameless plug, if you are tempted by this experience and like skiing, we are recruiting: http://soundrop.fm/jobs Winter is coming, fast.

[shaydoc]

Using Vanilla JS & your own architectural design as opposed to a mainstream framework? Reason I ask is just with regard to maintainability of the codebase, and the ability to attract more candidates perhaps

[tbassetto]

I share your sentiment that it could drive away candidates and from time to time we reevaluate the costs and benefits of switching to a mainstream framework.

Concerning maintainability I am really happy with our codebase. Strict rules and tooling help us keeping a clean state. You can write non maintainable code with any mainstream framework or even confuse a new developer when writing idiomatic code for this framework is not well defined.