Nodejitsu unveils: Flatiron web framework for node.js

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Post by nephics » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 2:01 PM UTC

Nodejitsu unveils: Flatiron web framework for node.js
flatironjs.com

Re: Nodejitsu unveils: Flatiron web framework for node.js

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Post by z_ » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 2:23 PM UTC

I don't know if it's intentional but it currently 404s and that is everything I expected from node.js.

Re: Nodejitsu unveils: Flatiron web framework for node.js

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Post by indexzero » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 2:43 PM UTC

It is live now. We had a lot of repositories to move over on Github. Held us up by about an hour.

Re: Nodejitsu unveils: Flatiron web framework for node.js

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Post by netlemurde » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 3:31 PM UTC

this link should be on the website somewhere: https://github.com/flatiron

Re: Nodejitsu unveils: Flatiron web framework for node.js

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Post by zeeone » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 3:33 PM UTC

Nice, lightweight framework, but the template system (Plates) seems weak. It only binds to DOM elements. This means two things: a) You always have to use HTML for all of your templates; b) You have to create a new DOM element for each variable. Example Hello Batman instead of Hello

Re: Nodejitsu unveils: Flatiron web framework for node.js

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Post by moomin » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 6:12 PM UTC

I think that's one of the most mobile hostile web pages I've seen in a while. Not really a great advertisement.

Re: Nodejitsu unveils: Flatiron web framework for node.js

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Post by maxogden » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 11:33 PM UTC

zeeone wrote: post #5

Nice, lightweight framework, but the template system (Plates) seems weak. It only binds to DOM elements. This means two things: a) You always have to use HTML for all of your templates; b) You have to create a new DOM element for each variable. Example Hello Batman instead of Hello

i'd recommend opening an issue over here https://github.com/flatiron/plates/issues so that the authors can respond to you more efficiently

Re: Nodejitsu unveils: Flatiron web framework for node.js

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Post by hij1nx » Thu, Nov 10, 2011, 3:19 PM UTC

zeeone wrote: post #5

Nice, lightweight framework, but the template system (Plates) seems weak. It only binds to DOM elements. This means two things: a) You always have to use HTML for all of your templates; b) You have to create a new DOM element for each variable. Example Hello Batman instead of Hello

that the entire point of the templates component.

`Hello ` is a biproduct of many years of webservers not being able to parse DOM structures. DSLs come and go. they make markup non-portable. Moving away from DSLs is a step toward a more portable stack.