Josi: a new web framework for Node

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Post by vier » Sat, Jun 12, 2010, 11:31 PM UTC

Josi: a new web framework for Node
thatismatt.github.com

Re: Josi: a new web framework for Node

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Post by cmelbye » Sun, Jun 13, 2010, 1:39 AM UTC

Another?... Don't get me wrong, it looks somewhat better than the other frameworks I guess, but really?

Re: Josi: a new web framework for Node

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Post by mcantelon » Sun, Jun 13, 2010, 1:55 AM UTC

This doesn't look much different from existing frameworks like Express. I wonder what distinguishes the project?

Re: Josi: a new web framework for Node

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Post by vito » Sun, Jun 13, 2010, 2:03 AM UTC

The example code is a bit unreadable for me: http://i.imgur.com/uMcgo.png

Re: Josi: a new web framework for Node

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Post by astrofinch » Sun, Jun 13, 2010, 2:44 AM UTC

Both Node.js and Tornado seem to have scaled for real-time-web stuff in the past:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088699

http://friendfeed.com/

I think I'd try Tornado first myself because of Python's error tracebacks. In my opinion they make debugging significantly easier.

Is there any other software in this space?

Re: Josi: a new web framework for Node

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Post by astrofinch » Sun, Jun 13, 2010, 2:56 AM UTC

mcantelon wrote: post #3

This doesn't look much different from existing frameworks like Express. I wonder what distinguishes the project?

It's built on Node.js, which is supposed to make real-time web stuff easier.

Re: Josi: a new web framework for Node

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Post by frofro » Sun, Jun 13, 2010, 3:19 AM UTC

cmelbye wrote: post #2

Another?... Don't get me wrong, it looks somewhat better than the other frameworks I guess, but really?

I understand that the node community is still very young but hopefully they'll start consolidating around some of the core libraries/frameworks pretty soon. For example, I haven't seen a consensus for the best testing or packaging libraries.

Re: Josi: a new web framework for Node

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Post by probablycorey » Sun, Jun 13, 2010, 3:31 AM UTC

astrofinch wrote: post #6

mcantelon wrote: post #3

This doesn't look much different from existing frameworks like Express. I wonder what distinguishes the project?

It's built on Node.js, which is supposed to make real-time web stuff easier.

So is Express http://expressjs.com/

Re: Josi: a new web framework for Node

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Post by zppx » Sun, Jun 13, 2010, 3:33 AM UTC

mcantelon wrote: post #3

This doesn't look much different from existing frameworks like Express. I wonder what distinguishes the project?

Express is closer to Sinatra than to a MVC, that's for me is the only difference.

Re: Josi: a new web framework for Node

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Post by Detrus » Sun, Jun 13, 2010, 4:01 AM UTC

vito wrote: post #4

The example code is a bit unreadable for me: http://i.imgur.com/uMcgo.png

Yea they really need to change the background behind the code. There are so many new frameworks with unknown user bases and support out there that their website design can be the difference between getting users or not.