justinblat
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Director of Engineering @Discord, package manager enjoyer
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Comment · 9 years ago
We're still working on rolling a few docs throughout the day. For example - here's the node.js lib:
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-node#clo...
Comment · 10 years ago
Of course we do :) We deprecated the original appengine console, and we've moved all of the UI over to the Cloud Developers console:
https://console.cloud.google.com/
It has all of the cloud stuff in one place. Should be a lot nicer to use too :)
Comment · 10 years ago
Greetings folks! One of the App Engine PMs here. That couldn't be further from the truth - we absolutely want people to use App Engine. If you want to manage your own infrastructure, Google Compute Engine is great. If you want something that scales automatically, and requires less management - App Engine is a great option. We've actually made a ton of changes recently, specifically on our support for docker based runtimes, new docs, and new runtime support (like nodejs, ruby, python3, etc).
https://cloud.google.com/nodejs https://cloud.google.com/ruby https://cloud.google.com/python .... etc
If you have any questions at all about the service, feel free to ask me anything.
Comment · 10 years ago
Greetings folks, I'm the PM for Node.js on App Engine. If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask me anything!
Comment · 10 years ago
Apologies you had a bad experience. There's no doubt the original App Engine had some... quirks.
You may want to take a look at Managed VMs. All of the new runtimes are based on Docker images, are entirely extensible, and don't require the use of the original App Engine APIs:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/managed-vms/
You can use whatever Database or NPM modules you want.
Comment · 10 years ago
I think technically that command is still hidden lol. You can run it, it just doesn't show up in the docs. We'll be officially releasing that one in a few weeks.
Comment · 10 years ago
You can specify whatever version of Node.js you want to use in the engines section of your package.json: