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Excuse the naive question, I just woke up and this is what went through my mind: How do I change Playdoh's rendering to AngularJS, it's backend to NodeJS, to b

by jjsz 13y ago

Excuse the naive question, I just woke up and this is what went through my mind: How do I change Playdoh's rendering to AngularJS, it's backend to NodeJS, to be used on top of CoreOS (http://coreos.com/blog/coreos-vagrant-images/ http://coreos.com/blog/coreos-vagrant-images/) since it also uses Vagrant? A full stack like the MEAN (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS [http://mean.io/] http://mean.io/]) with an interachangele database. The point is to be production ready. Can somone do a writeup like: (https://medium.com/code-adventures/438bce155dcb https://medium.com/code-adventures/438bce155dcb) with proper yeoman integration. Someone who's altruistic (thanks for the new word HN) can launch a bitcoin crowdfunder (https://bitcoinstarter.com/ https://bitcoinstarter.com/) or an indiegogo / kickstarter but this definitely needs to happen. Especially NoFlo supporting it. This will help a lot of visual learners and the k-12 demographic. Edit: Is this considered spam here or what because I got downvoted.

andybak 13y ago
I think you might have got downvoted because your comment reads a bit like "I do I change Playdoh [into a completely different thing entirely]?"
- jjsz 13y ago
  Not change it completely, but it obviously can be built on top of and implemented with other things like what the docker crew did with flynn. I might be taken things wrong but I always take downvotes as a sign to keep my mouth shut the next time, especially when they don't explain themselves.
  - Osmose 13y ago
    I think you might be misunderstanding just how much of playdoh is generic "basic site setup" vs how much is Django/Python-specific configuration. Playdoh is almost completely composed of configuration for a Django site. Your suggestion sounds like you think that Playdoh is a generic application template that just happens to use Django, that could be adapted, but that's not the case. At best, you'd be able to see the kind of things Playdoh configures (Security things like X-Frames and CSRF, integrating Persona-based logins, etc) and implement similar things with another environment and framework, but Playdoh is pretty much 99% Python/Django stuff that would need to be replaced.
jeremya 13y ago
I believe you were downvoted because your comment sounds like you are trolling. You have not said what it is about Playdoh that you would like to see in an AngularJS/NodeJS/CoreOS/etc stack. By the nature of Playdoh being a Django template, you cannot simply swap in NodeJS. You would be starting over from scratch with the goal producing (some of) the features of Playdoh with different technologies.
Lazare 13y ago
Either you're trolling, or you are...very confused. Giving you the benefit of the doubt........ You're looking at a django project template which is based on Python, Django, Postgres, a traditional response cycle, and asking how to swap out every single component, leaving literally nothing of the original project. The answer to "how do I do it" is "by rewriting the entire thing, from scratch". Worse, you say "the point is to be production ready", but what you're suggesting is to rewrite an app written on a very stable, very battle tested stack with one written in the latest hipster frameworks. For something like this project, BY DEFINITION what you're asking will make it less production ready. Even if we grant that MongoDB or NodeJS is useful for production in some circumstances (and in the case of MongoDB, that's actually an open question, but I digress), it ain't these. There's a stereotype that the average HN commenter is obsessed with hipster technology like MongoDB and NodeJS, and wants to use them even when, as here, they aren't appropriate. In addition, the stereotype also holds that the same commenter is probably into bitcoins (which you mentioned), loves scaffolding tools like Yeoman (which you mentioned), and indigogo projects (which you also mentioned). All of this just screams "troll"; the only false note is your mention of NoFlo and the k-12 demographic; unless I've missed an influx of hipsters, tha's the one line in your post which doesn't sound like a parody of the stereotypical HN commenter. So...yeah. If you're a troll, you're a good one. If you're being serious, you need to step away from the Kool-Aid because you honestly sound like a walking parody. The technologies you mention are not silver bullets, and in no way "production ready" compared to a traditional webapp. What you're asking about is both impossible and a terrible idea. And that's why you're getting downvoted.
- jjsz 13y ago
  Thanks for being blunt, and no I wasn't trolling, I was definitely very confused earlier this morning...I just saw MEAN and everything else SEEMED to connect but like you said these are NOT interchangeable and not production ready.
  - danoprey 13y ago
    Where did you see MEAN? You're the only one to mention it anywhere.

by jjsz 13y ago

andybak 13y ago

I think you might have got downvoted because your comment reads a bit like "I do I change Playdoh [into a completely different thing entirely]?"

jjsz 13y ago
Not change it completely, but it obviously can be built on top of and implemented with other things like what the docker crew did with flynn. I might be taken things wrong but I always take downvotes as a sign to keep my mouth shut the next time, especially when they don't explain themselves.
- Osmose 13y ago
  I think you might be misunderstanding just how much of playdoh is generic "basic site setup" vs how much is Django/Python-specific configuration. Playdoh is almost completely composed of configuration for a Django site. Your suggestion sounds like you think that Playdoh is a generic application template that just happens to use Django, that could be adapted, but that's not the case. At best, you'd be able to see the kind of things Playdoh configures (Security things like X-Frames and CSRF, integrating Persona-based logins, etc) and implement similar things with another environment and framework, but Playdoh is pretty much 99% Python/Django stuff that would need to be replaced.

jeremya 13y ago

I believe you were downvoted because your comment sounds like you are trolling. You have not said what it is about Playdoh that you would like to see in an AngularJS/NodeJS/CoreOS/etc stack. By the nature of Playdoh being a Django template, you cannot simply swap in NodeJS. You would be starting over from scratch with the goal producing (some of) the features of Playdoh with different technologies.

Lazare 13y ago

Either you're trolling, or you are...very confused. Giving you the benefit of the doubt........ You're looking at a django project template which is based on Python, Django, Postgres, a traditional response cycle, and asking how to swap out every single component, leaving literally nothing of the original project. The answer to "how do I do it" is "by rewriting the entire thing, from scratch". Worse, you say "the point is to be production ready", but what you're suggesting is to rewrite an app written on a very stable, very battle tested stack with one written in the latest hipster frameworks. For something like this project, BY DEFINITION what you're asking will make it less production ready. Even if we grant that MongoDB or NodeJS is useful for production in some circumstances (and in the case of MongoDB, that's actually an open question, but I digress), it ain't these. There's a stereotype that the average HN commenter is obsessed with hipster technology like MongoDB and NodeJS, and wants to use them even when, as here, they aren't appropriate. In addition, the stereotype also holds that the same commenter is probably into bitcoins (which you mentioned), loves scaffolding tools like Yeoman (which you mentioned), and indigogo projects (which you also mentioned). All of this just screams "troll"; the only false note is your mention of NoFlo and the k-12 demographic; unless I've missed an influx of hipsters, tha's the one line in your post which doesn't sound like a parody of the stereotypical HN commenter. So...yeah. If you're a troll, you're a good one. If you're being serious, you need to step away from the Kool-Aid because you honestly sound like a walking parody. The technologies you mention are not silver bullets, and in no way "production ready" compared to a traditional webapp. What you're asking about is both impossible and a terrible idea. And that's why you're getting downvoted.

jjsz 13y ago
Thanks for being blunt, and no I wasn't trolling, I was definitely very confused earlier this morning...I just saw MEAN and everything else SEEMED to connect but like you said these are NOT interchangeable and not production ready.
- danoprey 13y ago
  Where did you see MEAN? You're the only one to mention it anywhere.