The Trello Tech Stack

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Post by elehack » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 4:35 PM UTC

The Trello Tech Stack
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#2

Post by praxxis » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 5:06 PM UTC

"We use a really excellent async library"

Does anyone happen to know if this is an open source or in house library?

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#3

Post by gecko » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 5:07 PM UTC

praxxis wrote: post #2

"We use a really excellent async library" Does anyone happen to know if this is an open source or in house library?

It's open-source: https://github.com/caolan/async

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#4

Post by dodger » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

praxxis wrote: post #2

"We use a really excellent async library" Does anyone happen to know if this is an open source or in house library?

I meant to link that. Now it's linked in the post, and it's here: https://github.com/caolan/async

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Post by dodger » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 5:11 PM UTC

dodger wrote: post #4

praxxis wrote: post #2

"We use a really excellent async library" Does anyone happen to know if this is an open source or in house library?

I meant to link that. Now it's linked in the post, and it's here: https://github.com/caolan/async

Funny story, I found this particular lib the same day as Daniel wrote some code that was an exact drop-in replacement for its 'parallel' function. So he says 'Yes, let's use that one, as I understand and approve of its approach.'

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Post by jeswin » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 5:14 PM UTC

The UI could be less cluttered.

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Post by padobson » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 5:17 PM UTC

I think this is the best write-up I've seen of a full Javascript/CoffeeScript stack.

I've always been hesitant to get too far away from my LAPP(ython) stack, but I'll almost certainly be hacking something together with these components to see how I like writing everything in CoffeeScript.

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Post by apg » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 5:17 PM UTC

This post raises a few questions for me... and perhaps some one more versed in these stacks can provide answers.

- Does the use of CoffeeScript alleviate the MC Escher-esque quality of callbacks within closures involved in working with Javascript on both the server and client (and the data store)? I can totally see the appeal of CoffeeScript's syntax. Giving the programmers something different to look (and learn) at probably provides some cognitive benefit as well.

- Is there an acronym/name (ala LAMP) for the Node/MongoDB/Redis stack?

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#9

Post by jslabaugh » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 5:18 PM UTC

Great write-up... It made me want to go play with these exact components!

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Post by geekfactor » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 5:19 PM UTC

Does anyone know of any open-source projects out there using a similar stack? I'm particularly interested in learning more about client-side view rendering with Backbone and Mustache... server side can be any of Node, Rails or Django.