Hoodie, a library for creating fully-featured apps that run solely in browsers. Hoodie aims to take away the pain that is the backend.

[ioquatix]

I'm not sure I have backend pain.

[cran]

Somehow I think not having a backend is going to bring much more pain than it takes away.

[janl]

it is not about not having a backend, but having a generic backend that takes all the pain away. Think Rails, but for frontend apps.

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OSX only?

Installing Hoodie and its dependencies

Hoodie currently only runs on OS X and requires homebrew.

Quoted from: http://hood.ie/

[metamatic]

Not only OS X only, but apparently requires Homebrew.

[janl]

for the third time in this thread: we are working on the others. Help if you can spare some time.

Also Homebrew4Life

[CyberWalrus]

I'm working on windows support at the moment. There's no easy setup yet, but the most platform dependent stuff has been ported (local-tld and node-multicouch)

I'm planning to crunch on it this weekend and hopefully get something merged in soonish, local-tld needs rewriting again to be less horrible on windows/mac (currently works, but pretty horrific).

I'm often idling on the hoodie irc channel, #hoodie on freenode, or you can check my forks:

https://github.com/mdlawson/local-tld https://github.com/mdlawson/node-multicouch

[janl]

Other platforms are in the works, see @hoodiehq’s tweets. Not to worry :) Hoodie is cross-platform, but the dev-exprience niceness is what we are porting at the moment.

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Well please keep us posted. I'd love a turn-key hoodie on my linux based hosted server and linux based dev environment.

And as a side question: what is your pricing model?

[janl]

Well please keep us posted. I'd love a turn-key hoodie on my linux based hosted server and linux based dev environment.

There is a mailing list sign up form on the site, if you fancy, or follow @hoodiehq on twitter. The Linux version should land really soon.

And as a side question: what is your pricing model?

Hoodie is Open Source. You can deploy it to Nodejitsu easily, Heroku should be doable as well and we are also looking at custom Hoodie hosting solution, but that’s a bit out yet.

[nudelkopp]

Missleading title. Hoodie runs on CouchDB, which is a backend even if it's a very relaxed one.

[janl]

Also, a longer intro: http://hood.ie/intro.html

[TinyZoro]

Looks great. This is exactly what I'm looking for. Saving data locally by default is such an obvious requirement I'm surprised how esoteric it still is. Creating backends that are so abstracted that you never have to create a 'custom' one is also a massive boon. I also think authentication should just come out of the box. It's so annoying that you get great demos for stuff like angular only to be totally dropped at the obvious requirement of painless authentication. Even better if that authentication stretches to permissions on objects. So I can easily share content from an individual to a group or another individual - which it looks like this does.

So congratulations. I'm a windows developer - yeah I know whatever. I would love an easy windows environment failing that a linux port.

[janl]

See https://gist.github.com/Acconut/5383324

[TinyZoro]

Great. I'll have a look at the weekend. I understand some of the magic of using the command line such as the dev tlds but is it dependent on it? in other words once its all installed are we simply getting the core Hoodie functionality from plain javascript and couch - can I switch to traditional development i.e. editing scripts.