On top of that I remember the first nodeup podcasts and on twitter some key member from the community would bitch about express all the time. Ranging from express is bloated to middleware is a shitty abstraction to you don't need a framework in Node.js. It was really weird because express was (is?) one of the most used framework in the Node.js community and here you have people that other people follow and listen to tell you that it's crap.
Haha yup, I wont lie I have been an asshole at times, mostly because you sort of have to defend yourself when you're surrounded by people who attack your work, but after a while I realized it wasn't worth it so I just sort of detached (no longer on IRC, the mailing list etc). Defending your work isn't worth becoming rude yourself. Communities always form cliques that's just how it is.
The core node community was very unreceptive to change since the very beginning, to be honest Ryan and Isaac were some of the few humble people in the bunch. I've always been a "threat" to "the node way" of doing things, whatever that means. The elitism gets a little old.
I never really understood the reason behind driverless cars until I saw that they create 3D models of the environment they drive through. If everybody would drive a google car that would mean google has the potential of mapping the outside world in 3D in real time or atleast any place where cars can be used. The possibilities with this kind of data are pretty crazy and also a little scary.
My guess is that because Express and Connect aren't really big frameworks changing something fundamental as the middleware API would break all backwards compatibility. So you'll end up with a different framework anyway. This way people that like generator middleware can pick koa and if you prefer the old style middleware you can still use Express.js.
I also see pull requests getting merged into Express.js on almost a daily base. So I am not really worried about it dying anything soon. Most of the road map items for express are about extracting it's features into separate modules as well. Which means they are aiming at making the Express core even smaller and less opinionated.
We did this project in collaboration with Google, and they were great. We wouldn't have done it at all otherwise. But, I still do want to create a node-webkit app, because I think that's what users want, a normal app, not some weird hybrid thing.
Yeah, I looked at node-webkit as well. The reason I was thinking of going with Chrome was because it's easier to push updates and to receive payments instead of rolling my own. I went for PouchDB to sync my data which will probably give me a few issues with the Packaged Apps since it uses eval in some places but I'll deal with that later.
Thanks, I found out that grower enthausiasts have a lot of data to remember so thought it would be a cool app to make. I noticed that cannabis cultivation is really big on the internet so asked a reddit community what app they would like. My first prototype looked like twitter but they didn't really care for that. They just wanted an easy way to link data to a certain date. Would also love to have some vegie growers on the site but it's hard to get a foot in smaller communities without looking like a spammer. Anyway it's not really a commercial project but I do get a kick out of people using and enjoying my website.
I wish I could have cannabis cultivation in the UK, but unfortunately it's illegal. I've been pondering whether I should start a basic kitchen garden type thing and your app just gave me a reason to!
I've been thinking of growing indoor stawberries. Can never have enough strawberries. Red Alpine strawberries gives you fruit the whole year through. They are a bit smaller but they look awesome: http://imgur.com/8JzBPVr
