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Really awesome app! I like the design, and it's definitely got great functionality.

A little curious -- what's your middle/backend like? Curious which frameworks/platforms you chose

Thank you!

The setup:

AppEngine, HTML5BP, Bootstrap (I got rid of the rounded corners), jQuery, Backbone, Require.js, Less and Moment.js.

To resolve the question and answer content, I make a request out through YQL for the given question_id. For all the StackOverflow information I'm using the StackExchange API. For icons, I'm using the Pictos web font and for fonts, Google Web Fonts.

It's a pretty slim app, tbh. I was originally thinking about posting the code up on GitHub. Thoughts?

+1 vote for github. Seems like a wonderful learning opportunity for others.

https://github.com/nirvanatikku/stack-ed

Would seem to me that he has a Node backend. Most of the heavy lifting seems to be done in the front-end with Backbone/jQuery.

I've been really digging AppEngine and Python lately. You're right that most of the work is done on the front-end, but I enjoy many things about the AppEngine ecosystem and in this case the ease in integrating user auth was one of the reasons I decided to go with it.

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