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Providing a barebones core and allowing contributors to build onto it is a fairly tried and true strategy (Django and Drupal are two examples that come to mind)
by mcantelon 16y ago
Providing a barebones core and allowing contributors to build onto it is a fairly tried and true strategy (Django and Drupal are two examples that come to mind). As time goes on best-of-breed contributed modules will gain acceptance (socket.io is one that seems to have achieved this).
- weixiyen 16y agoThere is nothing bare-bones about Django, Drupal, RoR, etc. Node.js is about as bare-bones as you can get without getting into C.
- mcantelon 16y agoI wasn't talking about the nature of the technology, just the degree to which they include a "standard library". There are plenty of pluggable apps for Django and contrib modules for Drupal that are used on almost all sites, but they are not distributed with the project.