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Re: Hoodie – Fast web app development

#12
post #8

Team Hoodie here. Happy to answer any questions you might have :)

Hoodie is supported by a bootstrapped company run by the core devs, who put the profits back into Hoodie: http://blog.hood.ie/2014/05/welcome-to-the-neighbourhoodie/

Hoodie also relies on sponsorships, donations, gittip and other sources of revenue: http://blog.hood.ie/2014/01/how-is-hoodie-funded/

And here are a ton of more talks, slide decks, podcast links to Hoodie and closely related topics Offline First and noBackend: http://blog.hood.ie/2014/05/talks-about-hoodie-offlinefirst-...

Re: Hoodie – Fast web app development

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>It took less than 15 minutes for a person with no experience in any part of the stack to take an existing single user app and make it a multi-user application with robust security and data storage. […] Bravo, hood.ie, brav-fucking-o.

I find that extremely hard to believe.

Re: Hoodie – Fast web app development

#15
post #7

I know @gr2m, one of the guys behind Hoodie - he's one of the most awesome and holistic engineers I have met in my professional career! Also he's a regular speaker at conferences and devoting his time for charitable work. If you don't have a backend ninja in your dev team, you should take a serious look into Hoodie!

Would you happen to know if there are any videos of his talks online?

Re: Hoodie – Fast web app development

#17
post #9

If you wonder how the synchronization works, it's currently using a custom solution which is built on top of local storage. However it seems[0] that they are planing to switch to the awesome Pouchdb[1]. [0]: https://github.com/hoodiehq/hoodie.js/issues/8 [1]: http://pouchdb.com/

I looked at pouchdb's website and there's a lot about browser support but I didn't see any docs about the data model. It seems you're expected to know how CouchDB works?

Re: Hoodie – Fast web app development

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>It took less than 15 minutes for a person with no experience in any part of the stack to take an existing single user app and make it a multi-user application with robust security and data storage. […] Bravo, hood.ie, brav-fucking-o. I find that extremely hard to believe.

Yeah, same here, but it’s a testimonial we received :)

Given that Hoodie’s whole focus is on hiding backend complexities, it is not too far fetched, though.

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