Hey Everyone! We had to take a short nap but are around for questions in you have any. Feel free to hit up http://slack.feathersjs.com as well. There's a party going on in there! :-)
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Nice. Agree with the premise that frameworks like Meteor have so much magic that once you hit the boundaries of their sandbox, it's hard to customize things due to the heavy coupling. However, just bookmarking FeathersJS for now because the community for Meteor itself is not very mature right now. I can't afford to switch to something with even fewer people working actively on it. Hope it gets enough traction to revisit in 6 months.
@neilsatra I totally get that. Thanks for the very valid feedback.
Feathers 2 has a very stable core that is well tested but any time you make a switch in technology there is risk, this is compounded when a technology is new and has been even more so in JavaScript lately. We've been working on Feathers for a couple years and plan on many more. Hope to see you around in 6 months!
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will give it a try as an alternative to firebase. at first sight, i really like the fact that a lot of things are already integrated like auth. the only thing that fears me is the lack of references for this framework when you google it.
@lanlau We all have to start somewhere :) Over the last couple of days we have however heard from a surprising number of people - besides ourselves and active contributors - that happily use it in production applications, some for almost two years already. So the core of Feathers is pretty stable and "just works" which I consider a good sign. As with any open source project there may be bumps in the road with some of the newer and more cutting edge things but even just this week the community has been doing a fantastic job in helping us iron those out so I'm very excited for the future.
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@daffl thanks for your reply! Will continue to read the docs (by the way, you did a really good job on this) and play with it
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Built on top of ExpressJS, which means it's compatible with virtually all of the ExpessJS ecosystem (middleware and so on).
Pros:
Feathers: "Meteor" but easier & more lightweight; great community; excellent docs; good auth/security; REST & web sockets without the hassle
Cons:
Great for APIs and networking intensive apps, less so for LOB (line of business) apps or basic websites - use Rails/Django/PHP/Java instead
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Absolutely beautiful!!! I will share with my community for sure.
FeathersJS
FeathersJS
FeathersJS
Built on top of ExpressJS, which means it's compatible with virtually all of the ExpessJS ecosystem (middleware and so on).
Pros:Feathers: "Meteor" but easier & more lightweight; great community; excellent docs; good auth/security; REST & web sockets without the hassle
Cons:Great for APIs and networking intensive apps, less so for LOB (line of business) apps or basic websites - use Rails/Django/PHP/Java instead
FeathersJS