Nodal
Languages and libraries
web framework
SHOW HN2016
288points
168comments
#72of 2,264 in 2016
Top 4%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
8 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 14 critical, out of 42 comments about the project. Thread score -0.14.
Design: 4 for, 6 againstIdea: 0 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
ES6 class-based design feels modern
From 1 comment
Long time Django (and occassional rails) dev here.. I've messed with Node from time to time but never really been wowed by the fragmented eco-system around Express (or flask…
dev360 on HN
Built-in ORM and migrations are valuable
From 2 comments
Long time Django (and occassional rails) dev here.. I've messed with Node from time to time but never really been wowed by the fragmented eco-system around Express (or flask…
dev360 on HNThis looks awesome. The ORM itself may be the thing that makes me switch to Node. Are soft deletes planned in the future? I saw that cascading is on the roadmap.
chrishn on HN
Source is good for learning MVC framework design
From 1 comment
The source is amazing for anyone wanting to learn how to write decent MVC framework. Though I got some reservation about letting users write regex for routes and middleware…
seivan on HN
Objections
Documentation is lacking
From 2 comments
The docs do seem to be a little lacking - it's mostly technical stuff about methods and might not be what the developer is looking for. Looking at documentations from Laravel,…
foxpc on HNThe framework might be good, but you need to ditch that video and replace it with some example code. I need to know why it is better than Express or other Node frameworks and…
tomjen3 on HN
Too batteries-included; prefers modular packages
From 2 comments
Perhaps it is just me, but I much prefer functionality broken down in small packages, rather than offered as a complete framework. The advantage is that module boundaries are…
amelius on HNThis looks interesting, and although I'm already committed to an ad-hoc framework on my current projects, I'll check it out for future ideas (or to import some of your ideas into…
pfooti on HN
Code is arcane and custom require and static methods hurt readability
From 2 comments
I won't speak for anyone else, but looking at the code samples, pretty much everything I was worried about in terms of readability for ES6/silly uses of 'this' is present here.…
angersock on HNThe project is still 0.5 and it has a lot of cool ideas that most other NodeJS frameworks lack. That being said, here are the things I feel would be worth improving, based on the…
voidr on HN
Requires PostgreSQL install as prerequisite
From 1 comment
FWIW, I checked out at the "go install PostGres" pre-requisite. I'd prefer either being less opinionated about pgsql or making the dependency transparent via something like Docker.
gisenberg on HN
Requests
Transaction support in the ORM
From 1 comment
Doesn't seem to have transaction support for the ORM
p0larboy on HN
Built-in socket support
From 1 comment
Nodal doesn't have built-in socket support right now but the benefits of non-blocking IO in node are obviously huge. (It will. I just want to make sure I do integrated socket…
keithwhor on HN
MySQL support
From 1 comment
This is awesome, how about mysql users?
xjlin0 on HN
Soft deletes and cascading
From 1 comment
This looks awesome. The ORM itself may be the thing that makes me switch to Node. Are soft deletes planned in the future? I saw that cascading is on the roadmap.
chrishn on HN
Questions
Why not ES6 imports instead of custom require
From 1 comment
Great work and very good presentation. (These comments are just from watching the first video.) But how is this next-generation? It seems to be very inspired by established…
chvid on HN
What makes it next-generation
From 2 comments
What does "next-generation" mean?
vvpan on HNThe framework might be good, but you need to ditch that video and replace it with some example code. I need to know why it is better than Express or other Node frameworks and…
tomjen3 on HN
Why an ORM instead of a JS-oriented NoSQL database
From 1 comment
Great work and very good presentation. (These comments are just from watching the first video.) But how is this next-generation? It seems to be very inspired by established…
chvid on HN
Alternatives named
Express
From 1 comment
The framework might be good, but you need to ditch that video and replace it with some example code. I need to know why it is better than Express or other Node frameworks and…
tomjen3 on HN
Hapi.js
From 1 comment
This looks interesting, and although I'm already committed to an ad-hoc framework on my current projects, I'll check it out for future ideas (or to import some of your ideas into…
pfooti on HN
Rails and Django
From 2 comments
Long time Django (and occassional rails) dev here.. I've messed with Node from time to time but never really been wowed by the fragmented eco-system around Express (or flask…
dev360 on HNThe project is still 0.5 and it has a lot of cool ideas that most other NodeJS frameworks lack. That being said, here are the things I feel would be worth improving, based on the…
voidr on HN