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I'm curious why you chose to build your own instead of go with something like NestJS?

• jermaustin1 6y ago
  TL;DR; - I'm lazy. But maybe not as lazy as I should be? The fun of the build. I knew the handful of packages I wanted by default in all of my future projects, so I thought, why not just build around those, package it up so I can just run `npm install simplemvcjs` and start building. After decades of working on web applications all day everyday for my job, there was something that always kept me from building more side projects. After some soul searching, I realized I am incredibly lazy, and what was keeping me from starting was all the upfront work needed to create a new project from creating the directory and committing the first line of code to having something that was actually rendering in the browser. So the goal was to make this as easy as starting a new php project `touch index.php` but with the structure needed to keep the code from being too spaghetti-y. Are there other frameworks I could have used, I'm sure, but I would still have to rewrite a membership service, and still have to set up their versions of controllers, and set their rendering engine, etc., etc.
  • CharlesW 6y ago
    > I'm lazy. But maybe not as lazy as I should be? This was such an delightfully-unexpected response that I almost did a spit-take with my morning coffee. Thank you!