anonyfox

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by anonyfox 13y ago
The sky is the limit, node-webkit is indeed very powerful when you know what you're doing. For the build process: just try it with brunch, e.g.: with my skeleton (a simple todo app is included for playing around). It will take ~4sec to
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by anonyfox 13y ago
Kudos for you for similar thoughts, but you'll missing some points (or correct me if this isn't meant to be offensive...): 1. The "Trick" of the node-webkit based skeleton is, that frontend-developers must no longer thin
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by anonyfox 13y ago
Spread the word if you like it! The bigger the community around node-webkit gets, the better :)
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by anonyfox 13y ago
you just type `npm run deploy`, and for every target system there will be a application folder placed in "/dist", which you can basically just drag'n'drop. Endusers just have to doubleclick the executable inside thi
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by anonyfox 13y ago
Very interesting! Could you drop a line on the github repo how to use the phonegap build process with an app build for node-webkit? this would be awesome! I'll not have the time to make your described wonder happen, but at least truly
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by anonyfox 13y ago
It's just personal choice I'd say. It should be rather trivial to fork my repo, throw out all the stuff I used from https://github.com/scotch/angular-brunch-seed and add the skeleton you want from http:&#x2F
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by anonyfox 13y ago
the packaging just works, just type `npm run deploy`. It uses https://github.com/mllrsohn/grunt-node-webkit-builder behind the scenes. You'll get a native executable for Windows, OSX and Linux32/64, ready to
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by anonyfox 13y ago
It depends. At least before finally building your executables, you might want to concat & minify your assets and so on, since this will heavily increase the startup time of your app if you don't. (been there, done that, ... :D) To
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by anonyfox 13y ago
you may ship your app with any database you want. Easiest to use is a pure-JS datastore, like https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb or sqlite. I prefer NeDB, it should work just fine for <= 1GB of data. If you want
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by anonyfox 13y ago
It does. File system, databases, requests, whatever. At least I am not aware of edge cases currently. Only be aware that C++ node.js modules are incompatible with node-webkit, you have to build these modules with nw-gyp. A little inconvenie
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by anonyfox 13y ago
Similar spirit, different tech stack i'd say. :)
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by anonyfox 13y ago
You mean something like this: http://brunch.io/skeletons.html ?
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Show HN: Workflow for front end developers to create desktop applications(github.com)
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by anonyfox 13y ago
See Skyrim as an example for a successful modding culture. The community is just awesome.
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by anonyfox 13y ago
Seems like the most advanced node-webkit [1] application so far. Great to see how node.js is used for more and more crossplatform non-web apps. Cites Atwoods law here... [1] https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
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by anonyfox 13y ago
I recently wrote about a way for developers to find "good enough" names in a short period of time. http://blog.plague-dev.de/an-algorithmic-name-finding-proces... It works for me and my colleagues pretty well. You
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by anonyfox 13y ago
Okay, my thoughts now are something like this: data: RSS/Atom stuff information: do a basic keyword-analysis of the news snippets, maybe with some natural language processing, push it all into a graph database, using meaningful nouns a
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by anonyfox 13y ago
Very interesting thoughts, thanks for sharing! Let's try to map it to a somewhat simplified system: data = many news-websites out there | v information = RSS/Atom News Items of the sites above (basic data structure, highly availab
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by anonyfox 13y ago
Scala is incredible, but after learning it for a few weeks i realized that it is just too much . I just can't explain it better. Additinally the last time i toyed around with Scala, SBT was a joke compared to RubyGems/CPAN/
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by anonyfox 13y ago
Facebook just can't "switch" their backend. The mountain of built PHP stuff, including HHVM, is just too big to give up. They're of course not the typical beginners, but it's really easy to "get shit done"
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by anonyfox 13y ago
The only advantage of using PHP in my eyes is: incredible cheap and hassle-free hosting for beginners. If you change something when introducing HHVM to the masses, then you would have a game-breaker. If you can afford/achieve anything
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The Perfect Browser(blog.plague-dev.de)
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by anonyfox 13y ago
Correctly. Nowadays most of the web application frameworks have a built-in concept of an "asset pipeline". You drop your javascripts and stylesheets in a specific folder, and when starting your application in a production environm
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The MEAN Stack Revised(blog.plague-dev.de)
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by anonyfox 13y ago
After reading the comments, it seems that we germans shouldn't be known as "krauts", but rather as "bratwursts". Indeed, there is always time for one... :D
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by anonyfox 13y ago
You'll encounter the downsides when you have to do some serious number-crunching or analytical queries. Or just highly dynamic views that aren't cache-able. But that's not rails' fault, we all know that ruby itself isn&#
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by anonyfox 13y ago
https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2013/11/22/node-js-at-pay... Seems that node.js outperforms the JVM for WebDev nowadays.
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by anonyfox 13y ago
It'ns not that Rails is that fast (it isn't), they simply cache every damned piece upfront. When your requests barely ever touch the rails but are satified from the cache, you can use nearly everything as your backend stack.
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by anonyfox 13y ago
I think is they write in any comment that they're from one of these companies, the flamewar begins.
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by anonyfox 13y ago
> What problems, more precisely? What's the difference between compiling C++ to JS and compiling C++ for an open VM? Fair enough. Personally i see crosscompiler like Emscripten as a way to port already existing stuff over to JS. But

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