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Flatiron, A framework for Node.js

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I love the philosophy and the team behind it. My only /big/ caveat with Flatiron is every time I wanted to use it I found bugs everywhere and had to submit patches or report very obvious bugs. I understand that nobody is perfect and that bugs can sneak in. However, when it's the main trivial example shown on the website that is buggy, it's hard to trust the rest.

Now, it's been a few months, so take what I said with a grain of salt as it may have changed for the better. In fact, I'd love to use the framework.. that's why every month I'll try a pet project with it and see how stable it has become :)

I would concur with you on your caveat. There is activity in all of the repositories, but it also feels sometimes like the projects are drifting sideways. I'll also add that the documentation could be a lot better. I'm primarily familiar with the Resourceful component, and I frequently have to go back to an early version of the README (as well as perusing the source code constantly) to recall how things are supposed to function.

Those negatives aside, I think it's a pretty solid framework.

so is this the minimalist's framework? isn't the whole point for a framework to make your life easier? (i.e. express/derby)

Anyone know of any comparisons?

expressjs is the most frequently used framework. Geddy is another one. Socketstream is also being developed.

Personally, I'm moving away from using frameworks. Just starting to bang together all of the awesome modules from npm. (Mostly inspired by Issac's npm-www[1] for npmjs.org)

[1] https://github.com/isaacs/npm-www

>>> Personally, I'm moving away from using frameworks.

if i'm not mistaken, that is the entire point of Flatiron. just a collection of independent modules. use as much or as little as you want.

from first paragraph...

"Philosophy No one agrees on frameworks. It's difficult to get consensus on how much or how little a framework should do. Flatiron's approach is to package simple to use yet full featured components and let developers subtract or add what they want."

I think that some parts of the codebase are awesome but I would personally use express

Ever looked at Angular?

Angular has absolutely nothing to do with whether you use express, flatiron, rails or php?

This is a pretty good one: http://ocdevel.com/blog/nodejs-frameworks-comparison

How does this compare to Meteor? (http://meteor.com)

I really like what they've built here, but...

> DSLs (Domain Specific Languages) such as <%=foo%> or {{foo}} reduce portability

I would argue, well documented template DSLs increase portability among developers, which is often more important than portability among frameworks.

I have started using plates and director for client side projects. Loving it.

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