Ghost Busting: building node apps for the masses

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busting building node apps for the masses

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Hello! My name is Hannah.

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I’m @ErisDS on the Internet.

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CTO Lead Developer Head Geek GitHub Wrangler Customer Support Bug Squasher Project Manager PR Merger-er-er Issue Raiser Architect Public Relations Team Lead

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What is Ghost?

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Just a Blogging Platform

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Enable digital publishing for the masses

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Audience Technical Non-Technical (Everyone in Between)

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Written in

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Not for proﬁt

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Not for proﬁt

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Foundation

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Foundation

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Hosted Service

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Free, Open Source, Non Proﬁt & Sustainable

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Why ?

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Why not PHP?

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JavaScript

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Building Ghost (for the Masses)

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•Embracing Open Source •Node Challenges •Balancing Choice

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SQLite MySQL PostgreSQL JSON API Client Server Express Bookshelf & Knex Backbone Handlebars

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Embracing Open Source

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In the beginning...

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closed

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Funding & Proof of concept

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Kickstarter reward

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Alpha & Beta Testers

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Time to Build Foundations b

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Team = Culture & Process

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Closed Invite Only Open

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Iterate & Improve

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Culture & Process Championed by Team

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Node Challenges

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Database?

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SQLite MySQL PostgreSQL JSON API Client Server Express Bookshelf & Knex Backbone Handlebars

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Why not No-SQL?

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Why ?

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Native binaries

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Hosting Node.js is too hard

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One click installer now available

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e-mail

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Balancing Choice

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SQLite MySQL PostgreSQL JSON API Client Server Express Bookshelf & Knex Backbone Handlebars

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Why ?

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Theme API

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Getting Involved

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So much more to do

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Roadmap projects 0.5 Apps & Import 0.6 Multi-user & i18n 0.7 Editor & Mobile 0.8 Magazine Features 0.9 Cleanup 1.0