It's funny, this architecture he mentions of one-page-app clients on the frontend and microframework servers on the backend with Python is precisely the model I choose for a recent side project.
What I learned:
- Javascript requires a lot of architecture to be sustainable over even medium size apps (I stole N. Zaka's architecture)
- Writing functional tests for Javascript is difficult. (Writing unit tests is easy)
- Most web browsers are nearly there with everything you need for one-page-apps. IE8 is the only real problem, and I think my problems are soluble.
- Python's single threaded nature requires that you make explicit effort to add offline jobs (I added a priority queue using redis)
- Elasticsearch is actually quite complicated once your needs move out of the completely trivial
- Most of the documentation for Elasticsearch assumes a working knowledge of Lucene (which I don't have).
- Mongodb is really really easy to develop against
- Getting a single page app to be sensibly indexed by Google is not easy.
Here's the backend source:
- https://github.com/calpaterson/recall
And the frontend source:
https://github.com/calpaterson/web-recall
And the current deployed version is here:
https://recall.calpaterson.com/about/
I'd love to answer any questions, I'm not as keen on one-page-apps now as I was when I started.
What I learned: - Javascript requires a lot of architecture to be sustainable over even medium size apps (I stole N. Zaka's architecture)
- Writing functional tests for Javascript is difficult. (Writing unit tests is easy)
- Most web browsers are nearly there with everything you need for one-page-apps. IE8 is the only real problem, and I think my problems are soluble.
- Python's single threaded nature requires that you make explicit effort to add offline jobs (I added a priority queue using redis)
- Elasticsearch is actually quite complicated once your needs move out of the completely trivial
- Most of the documentation for Elasticsearch assumes a working knowledge of Lucene (which I don't have).
- Mongodb is really really easy to develop against
- Getting a single page app to be sensibly indexed by Google is not easy.
Here's the backend source:
- https://github.com/calpaterson/recall
And the frontend source:
https://github.com/calpaterson/web-recall
And the current deployed version is here:
https://recall.calpaterson.com/about/
I'd love to answer any questions, I'm not as keen on one-page-apps now as I was when I started.