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Serious question: what sorts of things would a person do with this? Not throwing rocks, this is a question based in my own ignorance. I know what Node is, but

by unit91 8y ago

Serious question: what sorts of things would a person do with this? Not throwing rocks, this is a question based in my own ignorance. I know what Node is, but I don't use it and I'm not an Android dev. Thanks!

meiraleal 8y ago
I don't know about others, but developing react native apps I sometimes have the necessity to use some NPM modules that can't be used directly into react native. For example, I'm developing a 1-person chatbot platform and I want to run botkit processes inside the app so I don't need a backend. It can't be done with React Native but could be done using node-android or nodejs-mobile.
m_mueller 8y ago
What I’d do is running a full blown database application on the device. Couchbase Lite can do that as an example - replicate to a Couchbase server and allow offline access to data and indices. If your server part is Node.js based you should be able to have the whole thing running offline on devices. Why? I’m Swiss. We drive a lot of trains and they enter a lot of tunnels. Or on the plane. Or on a mountain. Imagine you can just keep on editing all your business data and sync the delta once you get a connection.
- fareesh 8y ago
  In the past I've used PouchDB inside a webview for this use-case.
- stephengillie 8y ago
  You may be interested in a new way to develop web applications that I have been developing. An entire site is represented in JSON, and pages are built by Javascript in the browser. This greatly reduces server calls, making it much faster as well as largely working offline. The site is in late alpha: https://www.sparational.com/ https://www.sparational.com/ (If you goto the Login screen and enter an unused username and password, it will create an account for you.)
  - tazard 8y ago
    On my phone, it just says application error
    - stephengillie 8y ago
      Which browser? I've tested on desktop Chrome, mobile Chrome, and mobile Firefox. IE and Edge aren't currently supported, and might never be.
      - tazard 8y ago
        I tried Firefox Focus, Firefox Mobile, and Chrome. Just tested again and it's working now though. Looks interesting!
  - thomasfoster96 8y ago
    What makes this a better approach than having something like React run in a ServiceWorker? www.sparational.com seems to have gone down since I started writing this comment, but when I clicked on the link, it seemed to have quite a considerable wait until anything appeared on the screen.
- jayd16 8y ago
  This is pretty much what Firebase is. https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/ https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/
8note 8y ago
I was working on making a reddit auto repost detector bot based on opencv that I was going to leave running on an old phone. I got node running on it without this though, but funemployment ended before getting the proper drivers running on it

by unit91 8y ago

meiraleal 8y ago

I don't know about others, but developing react native apps I sometimes have the necessity to use some NPM modules that can't be used directly into react native. For example, I'm developing a 1-person chatbot platform and I want to run botkit processes inside the app so I don't need a backend. It can't be done with React Native but could be done using node-android or nodejs-mobile.

m_mueller 8y ago

What I’d do is running a full blown database application on the device. Couchbase Lite can do that as an example - replicate to a Couchbase server and allow offline access to data and indices. If your server part is Node.js based you should be able to have the whole thing running offline on devices. Why? I’m Swiss. We drive a lot of trains and they enter a lot of tunnels. Or on the plane. Or on a mountain. Imagine you can just keep on editing all your business data and sync the delta once you get a connection.

fareesh 8y ago
In the past I've used PouchDB inside a webview for this use-case.
stephengillie 8y ago
You may be interested in a new way to develop web applications that I have been developing. An entire site is represented in JSON, and pages are built by Javascript in the browser. This greatly reduces server calls, making it much faster as well as largely working offline. The site is in late alpha: https://www.sparational.com/ https://www.sparational.com/ (If you goto the Login screen and enter an unused username and password, it will create an account for you.)
- tazard 8y ago
  On my phone, it just says application error
  - stephengillie 8y ago
    Which browser? I've tested on desktop Chrome, mobile Chrome, and mobile Firefox. IE and Edge aren't currently supported, and might never be.
    - tazard 8y ago
      I tried Firefox Focus, Firefox Mobile, and Chrome. Just tested again and it's working now though. Looks interesting!
- thomasfoster96 8y ago
  What makes this a better approach than having something like React run in a ServiceWorker? www.sparational.com seems to have gone down since I started writing this comment, but when I clicked on the link, it seemed to have quite a considerable wait until anything appeared on the screen.
jayd16 8y ago
This is pretty much what Firebase is. https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/ https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/

8note 8y ago

I was working on making a reddit auto repost detector bot based on opencv that I was going to leave running on an old phone. I got node running on it without this though, but funemployment ended before getting the proper drivers running on it