Review my startup: Akshell, now with CommonJS support
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Review my startup: Akshell, now with CommonJS support
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Re: Review my startup: Akshell, now with CommonJS support
#2From talking to Anton, it seems like GitHub integration is next up on the TODO list. Any feedback on whether you'd find that useful and how you think it should be done would be really appreciated.
Re: Review my startup: Akshell, now with CommonJS support
#3What does it do? The blog posting doesn't mention anything except recent changes to a product with no description.
Re: Review my startup: Akshell, now with CommonJS support
#4What does it do? The blog posting doesn't mention anything except recent changes to a product with no description.
It enables users to develop web applications is JavaScript and host them in the cloud. The only tool required for development is a web browser. And the deployment is instant.
It also features an environment where applications can interact with each other; so they could be really modular and social.
Re: Review my startup: Akshell, now with CommonJS support
#5Awesome, glad to see CommonJS modules and JSGI in there!
Have you looked at the ECMAScript Proxy proposal? You might want to consider using the API.
Re: Review my startup: Akshell, now with CommonJS support
#6Awesome, glad to see CommonJS modules and JSGI in there! Have you looked at the ECMAScript Proxy proposal? You might want to consider using the API.
Yes, I have looked. I implemented a simpler Proxy: http://www.akshell.com/docs/0.2/ref/core/misc/#Proxy
It's more restrictive, but much more easy to use.
Re: Review my startup: Akshell, now with CommonJS support
#7I'd like to see a clearer up-front description on the front page. This is clearly for people-in-the-know, so just letting me categorize this quickly would be really helpful.
I think this is something for doing server-side Javascript development, with integrated hosting and an IDE. It's not clear to me how things like persistence work; since Javascript is somewhat novel in this role these things aren't obvious. It's not like PHP, where I'd just assume MySQL.
I see you are talking about new programmers using this, but I wouldn't try to talk to both audiences at once. Either have a separate entry page for new programmers, or just skip it (realistically it's only early adopters who are going to be interested in this for the near future).
Re: Review my startup: Akshell, now with CommonJS support
#8I'd like to see a clearer up-front description on the front page. This is clearly for people-in-the-know, so just letting me categorize this quickly would be really helpful. I think this is something for doing server-side Javascript development, with integrated hosting and an IDE. It's not clear to me how things like persistence work; since Javascript is somewhat novel in this role these things aren't obvious. It's n…
Your comment does makes sense. I should change the front page.
Applications has two places to store persistent data: database and file storage. The latter is rather common. The database is implemented on top of a custom query language designed for embedding into JavaScript.
Here is a database API description: http://www.akshell.com/docs/0.2/guide/db-and-fs/
And query language description: http://www.akshell.com/docs/0.2/ref/core/db/#query-language
Re: Review my startup: Akshell, now with CommonJS support
#9What does it do? The blog posting doesn't mention anything except recent changes to a product with no description.
It enables users to develop web applications is JavaScript and host them in the cloud. The only tool required for development is a web browser. And the deployment is instant. It also features an environment where applications can interact with each other; so they could be really modular and social.
Is this similar to what AppJet originally attempted to do? If so, have you attempted to contact them to see what types of problems they encountered before focusing on EtherPad?
Re: Review my startup: Akshell, now with CommonJS support
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It enables users to develop web applications is JavaScript and host them in the cloud. The only tool required for development is a web browser. And the deployment is instant. It also features an environment where applications can interact with each other; so they could be really modular and social.
Is this similar to what AppJet originally attempted to do? If so, have you attempted to contact them to see what types of problems they encountered before focusing on EtherPad?
Akshell targets more "heavy" applications than AppJet. E.g., it has a relational database and AppJet had key-value store. I contacted JGate guys. JGate is an AppJet successor http://apps.jgate.de/.