On Aug 2, 2013, at 18:41, abhinav gupta wrote: > I am a php developer who has worked on core php, wordpress, magento, etc. Now > after hearing so many nice things about node.js I am thinking about switching. > > My next project includes a combination of shopping cart, blog, forum and > other custom pages. Now how should I go about making this project using > node.js. Should I build the whole project using node.js, build shopping cart, > blog, forum, payment gateway integration from scratch in node.js. I have > never made a shopping cart through just core programming. Would it be that > hard? Is it worth it? How long should it take? Can you guide me to some > tutorials. > > Or is there a way out using a combination of node.js and cart/forum made in > php. Does it make any sense?
Others may disagree, but in my opinion, no, that doesn't make sense. Pick a language, php or node, and write your project in it. Others may advocate mixing and matching but that seems unnecessarily complicated to me. I like node. I recommend you give it a try. But on a small project of manageable scope. Perhaps a simple site that you've already built in php that you can convert to node to see how it's done. There are a zillion node modules already written, available in npm, which you can look through to see what might be helpful to you. Probably someone has written modules for integration with various payment gateways, for example. Maybe someone has written a shopping cart. But it can be time consuming to try out all the available packages to find the one (if any) that does exactly what you want. There's something to be said sometimes for writing your own code. It may take longer, but in the end you'll understand it, know how it works, and know that it does what you need. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
