Classified-ads-48 VS Stream-Framework

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 have looked into a getstream.io integration, however it seems that the Ruby SDK is really treated as a second class citizen. There's bugs with the documented API (I'm having issues even creating users and querying users), the usage of the gem is low and there is an open issue since May that no one has even looked at, which doesn't give me hope for long term support.

An ultralight social media app with no dependencies that can run on shared web hosting. It's an API like Getstream, so F/E is up to you. I've had a fork of it in production for 2.5 years on a subscription site that generates a small income.

Now, I'm seeking your advice and opinions. If you have experience using Stream or MirrorFly for chat implementation, I'd greatly appreciate any insights you can provide. Here are some questions I have:

Think about the edge that you can have over thousands other people looking for a job like you. One of the ways to do it – tailor your (even small) experience to the company you are applying to. E.g. Let's take a company like Stream that have an open-source Swift SDK, try to contribute to their SDK, maybe close some `good-first-issue`s here and there, do some documentation improvements, enrich their example app. So that when you feel like you are ready to knock their door – you already have an edge over others – you don't need onboarding (because you already know most of their codebase, you even completed your first few tasks while yet not being employed!)

This is absolutely absurd. I mean I 100% believe it happens, it's just absurd that the Tier 1 admin bot is this bad.

I too firmly believe the tier 1 admins are just this program - https://getstream.io/ And reddit doesn't want to admit that humans are not actually reviewing things

Really depends on so many variables, and comes down to knowing the audience. I built a lightweight social network api platform to do a lot of what getstream.io and OSSN does, but the way users engaged with it was nothing like what I expected. One use case, for example, would have been mostly satisfied with WordPress and Mailchimp. Forums are very familiar to people and still used by a lot of "I don't do social media" types. At the risk of making a sweeping generalization, if you have an older target audience they will be happy with a forum. If you have a younger target audience they will prefer the sequential post / react style of interacting, like Discord or Instagram.