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14 pointsmaxsavin6 comments

UPDATE: Fixed now.

FYI - I'm getting a connection timeout.

  curl -v http://hndetox.com/v2
  * Trying 184.168.131.241...
  * connect to 184.168.131.241 port 80 failed: Operation timed out
  * Failed to connect to hndetox.com port 80: Operation timed out
  * Closing connection 0
  curl: (7) Failed to connect to hndetox.com port 80: Operation timed out

The domain has forwarding set up, please try: https://www.hndetox.com

That works. Thanks.

For those wondering, it's built with Meteor, Mongo and my jobs queue package: https://github.com/msavin/SteveJobs

Which makes the website absolutely blank if you have Javascript turned off. For such a simple website, why use JavaScript at all?

I'm happy to share the reasons:

- with Meteor, I have all my services (front end, back-end, etc) in one place, running on one dyno, with automatic deploy via GitHub

- my Meteor set up has stylus, minification, etc, configured

- I have libraries for routing, state management, and etc handily available

Ultimately, it's a choice based on personal productivity and convenience. The whole project took me a couple of days, whereas with the JS ecosystem, I'd probably have to spend that time configuring tools.

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