Flarum with NodeJS & MongoDB [DISCONTINUED]

datitisev

Hi. My name is David
A month ago, I thought that it would be useful to make a copy of Flarum, but instead of using PHP & MySQL, by using NodeJS & MongoDB.
I chose those programming languages (along with AngularJS) because I'm a lot more familiar with them than with PHP.

This is a work in progress, and will not be finished in weeks.

The Github project is @ http://Github.com/FlarumJS/node-flarum
The NPM project is @ http://npmjs.com/package/node-flarum
Travis-CI @ https://travis-ci.org/FlarumJS/node-flarum
Inch-CI @ https://inch-ci.org/github/FlarumJS/node-flarum
Gitter @ https://gitter.im/orgs/FlarumJS/rooms

FlarumJS Website: http://node-flarum.tk...................................................... FlarumJS website, copy of Flarum.org, not finished yet
FlarumJS Website Tester: http://blog.node-flarum.tk/flarumjs-status..... it looks to see if website is up or down
FlarumJS Community Forum: http://discuss.node-flarum.tk..................... FlarumJS Community Forum; uses FlarumJS!
FlarumJS Blog: http://blog.node-flarum.tk.................................................... FlarumJS Blog

I would appreciate all the help I can get, as of right now, the only help I have is Internet and Javier Ortiz (CTO of Tutellus [1]).

If you think I'm lying about knowing Node and Mongo, I'll try my best to convince you.
I created an online videocourse when I was 10, published June 17, 2014 [2]
I created a website for my mother, a not-famous music composer (yet) [3]
I used Ghost.org to also create her a blog. [4]
I created a CheckIn website for my school.

I hope to receive a lot of support during this project.
I also hope for everyone to try to make me understand something that I don't.
Ex: Javier Ortiz spent 45min trying to teach me to use aggregate instead of find with mongoose

Also to mention, original credits, styles, animation, and script credits go to the Flarum members, without them forums wouldn't look as good, as I've seen others ?

Why? datitisev
Flarum & FlarumJS; Collaborationdatitisev
Logo datitisev
What FlarumJS will use... datitisev

EDIT 1: Added FlarumJS website and blog links
EDIT 2: Added links in discussion section
EDIT 3: Changed links from datitisev/node-flarum to FlarumJS/node-flarum and updated parenthesis in FlarumJS Website
EDIT 4: Added FlarumJS Community Forum link (the forum's forum ?)
EDIT 5: Added Inch-CI & updated node-flarum.tk description
EDIT 6: Added Gitter link & more reply mentions

[1] http://www.tutellus.com (Spanish)
[2] http://2tel.us/1nJyq5u (Spanish)
[3] redacted
[4] redacted

Franz

datitisev Hello David, wow, this is truly impressive indeed!

Given your enthusiasm, I would of course prefer you contributed to our project, but since you seem to be intent on engaging in such an ambitious learning project and providing the Flarum experience to the NodeJS world, I cannot blame you - both of these are good things.

If you ever decide to dive deeper into PHP, though, we would be glad to have you on board and guide you in contributing to our open-source software!

Good luck with your project; if you have amazing ideas for the future of forum software, please post them here, so that we can steal them back. ?

jordanjay29

This looks like an interesting project (and your credentials are impressive for your age)! What made you decide on Flarum over native NPM applications like NodeBB?

datitisev

jordanjay29 Thanks! Well, for starters, Flarum has the best UX and UI for a forum and a website I've ever seen. I looked for forums for 2 hours, and all I found that I liked was esoTalk, but more Foarum, its successor.
Davis No, it's going to be a public project. It is also going to be free and open source, I don't think it would make sense to make it for pay. You do have a point about NodeJS support being less than PHP. In the beginning, I was going to make it personal, but because other people also asked about Flarum with NodeJS, I thought to make it public. I also think there is more support on free hosting, aka Heroku & Openshift, because PHP needs support of the extensions in the hostings.

This will answer many other questions, I'm sure:
Node-Flarum is also going to be a learning project, integrated with the community.

Hope this answered your questions.

Davis

Is this just for your personal use? It seems like an unnessissarily difficult project for personal use. I don't exactly see the point in creating a fork of something if you aren't exactly "adding" anything to the project. Perhaps it would be easier for some people to develop, but the end user isn't ultimately gaining anything. PHP is widely supported on servers. In the long run, I don't understand why you wouldn't rather learn PHP and contribute to the overall project.

datitisev

Franz Thank you for your support!
I'll definitely post ideas that might appear on FlarumJS and that will probably (hopefully) be useful to the community!
In a way, I owe you guys this, because I've been looking at flarum/core to see how you do, uh..., what you do ?, including how you insert extensions into Flarum.
Also, with the FlarumJS contributions, it might contribute alongside to Flarum, and viceversa. Completely different & alike things, helping each other ?

Thank you to everyone for the support that has been given to me during less than one week of this project being public in this forum.

To collaborate, please open a new issue @ Node-Flarum Issues with the label new collaborator
NOT YET AVAILABLE To join the FlarumJS organization and become a member, please email me @ email@domain.com with the subject I want to join the FlarumJS organization and say who you are, what you have done, what you know about NodeJS & Express, and what you will do to help the organization at your best.

datitisev

JRay
I express the "Why?" in datitisev.
Some people wanted a nodejs version of Flarum, and I just thought, I was already going to make one for myself, why not for everyone else?
FlarumJS is not going to be a completely different project from Flarum. They are both going to work together for features, issues, and more.
The why: i was going to do it anyway ?

datitisev

What do you guys think of the new FlarumJS logo??

jordanjay29

datitisev Actualy, I was thinking you should rebrand it. Something that represents you and your talents. Absolutely, it's a fork of Flarum and credit goes to the original devs, but you don't want people mistaking your board for the original and vice versa. Give it a unique flavor, something uniquely @datitisev.

JRay

Hey @datitisev. I think it's absolutely amazing what you've done at such a young age. You are destined to be a rockstar!

But I'd have to agree with some of the comments above. Why build a whole new version on another stack when there is so much work to still be done on the original PHP version? Not to mention, this is a HUGE project to attempt on your own.

Many of us are anxious and excited to use Flarum and are patiently waiting for a few more features or stability. We would all love to see any and all developers out there to help finish the PHP version and extensions. Maybe building a new extension that is needed would be a great way to learn and help the project?

Just a thought. I'm sure you'll be great either way!

Franz

datitisev FlarumJS is not going to be a completely different project from Flarum. They are both going to work together for features, issues, and more.

Does that mean you'll use our frontend code and only rewrite the backend/API itself in Node?

JRay Not to mention, this is a HUGE project to attempt on your own.

Indeed. The work...

Huuuuge

Haha, couldn't resist. ?

Davis

datitisev The why: i was going to do it anyway ?

Wouldnt you say learning PHP is a more valuable lesson? Flarum uses a lot of JS too so you wouldn't be completely in the dark. The only Benifit from it being nodejs is you're more familiar with it. The end user will notice nothing (besides the lag in updates from the php Flarum).

datitisev

Franz Yes, I do use the frontend CSS & JS of Flarum, but I also make some changes because of... different ways of doing the same, for example, the login & signup modals are always there, but hidden via AngularJS, instead of adding the code and removing it the whole time.

jordanjay29 I thought about it, but if I named it something completely different, people at first view would think it's completely different of Flarum, so I named it FlarumJS so you can make the connection to Flarum, and see that it has something to do with it.
When FlarumJS is more complete, I'll think of a unique name. As for now, I'll keep it as it is.

datitisev

BIG UPDATE HAS COME! v0.0.4

No... not really, but something did!

If you visit the FlarumJS Community, you will see a list of discussions with... unique titles...
That, my friends, is FlarumJS at its full potential right now!

Right now, if you post something
- The modal doesn't go away
- It doesn't remove the content either
- Nothing tells you it actually worked, except the console (console.log)
- You can't see the content, only the title
- There is no way to see inside of posts or reply, or delete, etc...

Meaning: Life is good, man! ?

Stay tuned! ?

Developers

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FlarumJS Gitter.. @ https://gitter.im/orgs/FlarumJS/rooms
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Join Slack............ @ https://gitter.im/datitisev
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meetdilip

I registered and created an account. But couldn't post a test post as " Post Reply " buttons was not visible.

datitisev

Andrei

A very ambitious project, best of luck to you.

datitisev

meetdilip What you have to do is create a new discussion, that is the only thing available right now ?

meetdilip

I clicked " Start Discussion " and editor popped up. But without any option to close it or " Post Reply " button to complete the post.

It's ok. Take you time. I will follow the progress. Good luck ?

datitisev

meetdilip The "Post Fiscussion" button is at the bottom, sorry, you will need to scroll down in the modal. There is a way to close it in really big screens, but my CSS is cranky ?
To close the modal, just refresh.

meetdilip

@datitisev

I clicked on " Post Discussion " button. But nothing happened.

datitisev

meetdilip Watch out, you just spammed many posts!!! ?
They do appear, click the refresh discussion button to see them.
Don't worry about it, I'll delete them when I get home.
Yeah, the only thing that happens is in the console, a success or error log appears.