Classified-ads-48 VS nodeBB

I posted before asking for help on Classified-ads-48 and got very nice PRs that kept me motivated and made me learn very nice techniques and features in the NodeJS ecosystem and in web dev in general.

link to the project

ps: this ismy app (software engineer but new to web dev, so don't blame labelling it with big words x))

I have a web-app that I started when turning into web-dev after some data engineering.

You probably saw how I deal with DB in my app that I listed in the other comment. Easy, most drivers already offer Promise based queries. Either you implement your callback where you return results or error then route it. Or you wrap queries with an async function in it you await native "db.query" calls (As I said most of drivers support, you should await to make code simple in your DB middleware) and implement then and catch from the caller function. If you didn't see mine, check this: https://github.com/bacloud14/Classified-ads-48/blob/hacktoberfest_only_branch/lib/services/mongo_ops.js you don't need try catch in case your Driver offers Promises (I believe).

If you have a hint, I will follow up with test. If you want to jump on code, here is the file and here is the repo.

sexpress 😆 comes with a plethora of middle-wares 🚀 , I'm not sure if everything is set correctly. Application middle-wares are third party dependencies and could be in a bad order. You know how third parties could mismatch.

> I'm a big fan of https://nodebb.org/

TIL to what shit Netgate moved pfSense forums to. I'm glad you are fine with it, but not only my FullHD monitor is not a smartphone, so I don't need 400% fonts on everything (and post dates on the faaaaar right clearly shows nobody ever even used the forum) and most importantly - search doesn't work. It's not like the previous forum had a good search, but at least it worked.

Bonus point: try to Ctrl+mousewheel on any NodeBB (including the official one).

NodeBB

You said it's based on. This means that there are modifications to the implementation of nodebb. So where is your modifications' source code then? stackfoss/stackfoss is just a single readme file

Obviously forums aren't as popular as they used to be, so this topic might not be of interest to many. For folks that want to run a forum, they'd most certainly go with Discourse (Ruby), Flarum (PHP), Xenforo (PHP), NodeBB (Javascript), Nimforum (Nim) and maybe Casnode (Go)

If you want to make your own app out of custom code that you will actively develop new features for, I think your points are true. But if you just wanted a modern version of the old phpBB forums, there are plenty of almost-turnkey projects/templates you can use. Check out NodeBB for instance. Maybe the barrier for entry is higher in a way, given increased complexity, but you also get more and nicer features "for free". I think it's a wash.

I was looking into actively maintained Rust based forum software similar to NodeBB (Node.js) or Discourse (Ruby on Rails) and Flaskbb (Python).

package: name: nodebb version: 2.5.3 dependencies: runtime: - nodejs environment: contents: packages: - alpine-baselayout - ca-certificates-bundle - nodejs - npm - git pipeline: - uses: fetch with: uri: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/archive/refs/tags/v${{package.version}}.tar.gz expected-sha256: 92e390d7cda190e7f098833cbbbf03fbe1c50f25653656ad589ae97dc18a7684 strip-components: 0 - runs: | mkdir -p "${{targets.destdir}}/usr/share/nodebb" cd NodeBB-${{package.version}} cp install/package.json . npm install --omit=dev cp -a ./. "${{targets.destdir}}/usr/share/nodebb"