I'm planning a single-page realtime application that I want to write in
node (with express+connect+socket.io and so on). That said, I want to write
the 'support code/website aspect' with django. What I mean by 'support
code/website aspect' is things like:
- frontpage & other static pages and content
- support forum
- sign-up flow
- contact forms etc.
- faq
- blog
- backend account management (mailing/payment/subscription etc.)
i.e., all of the extra front-of-house stuff that goes along with the app.
So when the user signs up they deal with django, then they are entirely
handed off to node when using the actual application (probably on a
subdomain or different domain - similar to how Harvest works)
I have two questions:
1. Is this crazy? I thought that this was the most logical approach.
Some of the reasons:
- Django is quick to set and prototype with.
- Django is mature in regard to this DB driven/CMS stuff like this
- There are loads of existing applications for many of these
requirements
- The django-admin makes this very easy and makes overall management
easy
- This loose coupling allows flexibility and division between the
application itself as well as the management/support aspect
- I'm extremely familiar with it and can work quickly with it!
After looking for others who have implemented a setup like this, or any
direction on the topic, it seems like it's not a very common approach
though.
1. If this isn't crazy, how would I go about sharing the sessions
between the two. Is there anything out there for this? As I imagine I would
be trying to sync the django user object (postgres) and a mongo object in
node and somehow share it between the two as well as the sessions.
In an ideal world, the user would be able to navigate between the core app
(app.mygreatwidget.com) and any of the other sections of the site
(mygreatwidget.com/faq or /forum etc) and be automatically logged in both.
Thanks for your time,
Timmy
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