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Re: Mean Stack

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What's the deal with MongoDB and the node.js community? I don't find non relational databases that enticing and there are javascript drivers for postgres [1]. [1] https://github.com/creationix/postgres-js

JavaScript "developers" feel the need to not use any other language than JavaScript, so they decided to shove it into as many unnecessary places as possible, even if their code more frequently ends up being an unmaintainable mess with no noticeable performance gains.

Re: Mean Stack

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What's the deal with MongoDB and the node.js community? I don't find non relational databases that enticing and there are javascript drivers for postgres [1]. [1] https://github.com/creationix/postgres-js

Probably because mongoose is so well written, it feels inferior to use another kind of ORM library. I'm guessing nobody has written something as good as the activerecord library in the ruby world for node.

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What's the deal with MongoDB and the node.js community? I don't find non relational databases that enticing and there are javascript drivers for postgres [1]. [1] https://github.com/creationix/postgres-js

JavaScript "developers" feel the need to not use any other language than JavaScript, so they decided to shove it into as many unnecessary places as possible, even if their code more frequently ends up being an unmaintainable mess with no noticeable performance gains.

is the "developers" dig really necessary? MongoDB is fine-- at least until you start seeing significant scale, and even then, it's going to run into the same issues as everything else would if you hit it too hard, too often.

Just because the query language is JSON-esq and has a javascript shell, it's therefore "Javascript" and a target of derision and scorn?

Re: Mean Stack

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post #4
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What's the deal with MongoDB and the node.js community? I don't find non relational databases that enticing and there are javascript drivers for postgres [1]. [1] https://github.com/creationix/postgres-js

JavaScript "developers" feel the need to not use any other language than JavaScript, so they decided to shove it into as many unnecessary places as possible, even if their code more frequently ends up being an unmaintainable mess with no noticeable performance gains.

I don't feel like you addressed the parent post. It was asking why people use mongodb instead of JavaScript bindings for PostgreSQL.

Re: Mean Stack

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post #4
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What's the deal with MongoDB and the node.js community? I don't find non relational databases that enticing and there are javascript drivers for postgres [1]. [1] https://github.com/creationix/postgres-js

JavaScript "developers" feel the need to not use any other language than JavaScript, so they decided to shove it into as many unnecessary places as possible, even if their code more frequently ends up being an unmaintainable mess with no noticeable performance gains.

I think very few javascript developers only know javascript. This some kind of late 90s C++ elitism or sarcasm?

Re: Mean Stack

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What's the deal with MongoDB and the node.js community? I don't find non relational databases that enticing and there are javascript drivers for postgres [1]. [1] https://github.com/creationix/postgres-js

It's nice to be able to get up and running and just throw documents into a database without having to specify what that data will look like up front.
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