Hi, As a novice on node, I thought it would be interesting to share my first experience with other novice noders J
This website - http://www.hezenhotel.com was previously built using a PHP Joomla framework. I never could feel ok with the way php Joomla was structured, so when I discovered node, I thought I would give a trial. So I took the website css and images and refactored it under expressjs. One may think of why using node for such an easy static website - but I think it's worthed and also node seems to me easier to learn than any other PHP framework. My brief conclusions: 1. It took me 2-3 days to build it (I think it's even too much considering the few number of lines & codes) 2. The code is very clean, templates are easy to read and modify. Total number of files are very neat and well structured - so I think when I want to change things in one year time, it wouldn't be difficult to remember what I did. 3. As this is a static website, I didn't use any database - just inserted my content in the templates 4. Playing with Javascript was fun and I think I am more of an asynchronous/javascript person J. 5. Used nodemailer for emailing (with Gmail SMTP) to email visitors requests (either reservation or contact requests). 6. Liked very much the modular approach and adding/install through npm. 7. Deployment and managing dependencies was very smooth using the package.json file 8. I needed to use gzip compression and used Gzippo for it. 9. The community is very vibrant and I got answers very quickly when needed. 10. Documentation is very clean. 11. It seems the website is much faster than Joomla version - but I didn't run any statistical test on it. This was a first trial of moving a website to node - but now that I am more confident I will try to move some e-commerce applications of mine that were also built on php. What may be missing (or that I didn't discover yet) is 1. Examples of e-commerce applications/framework like prestashop 2. Examples or frameworks for CMS/blog - even though I think it should be quite easy to build a blog using expressjs 3. More hosting solutions that have node in their core. There are zillions of php hosting provider but When I get some time, I will prepare a github repository and move the code there - to share with others. So - a big THANK YOU - to the node community, and if you by any chance come to Turkey, please let me know - so we can have a drink and chat over. Also, if you are from the node community - be assured that you will get a great discount if you decide to stay at Hezen Cave Hotel, in Cappadocia, Turkey ( http://www.hezenhotel ) :)) Cheers, Hakan Guzelgoz -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
