4 to 6 months! Thats a lot. And being a beginner, add another 2 months. Dont have this much time.
I looked for some published carts in node.js. Found nodeshop<https://github.com/topley/nodeshop> to be most popular. I think I will give it a try. May be it will be better than coding from scratch. On Saturday, August 3, 2013 6:05:31 AM UTC+5:30, Mark Hahn wrote: > > > how long would it take for a newbie to code a shopping cart in node > who has never made a shopping cart. > > I have done it twice. Once in PHP and mySql and the second time in node > and couchdb, from scratch both times. I would never do it from scratch > again. > > It took me about 4 to 6 months each time, but I enjoyed the node > development more. A lot of this was dealing with the UI but most was > coding the business logic. There are tons of things that were not trivial. > Dealing with the merchant providers, the backend quickbooks, and the > security of the transaction were all challenging. > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 5:28 PM, abhinav gupta <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Thanks. This is helpful. I am definitely going with any one of the >> platform now. Can you give me a rough estimate, how long would it take for >> a newbie to code a shopping cart in node who has never made a shopping >> cart. This would help me calculate if I have time to implement it for this >> project. Just a very rough idea. It would probably be only one time effort, >> then I can reuse it. >> >> I really want to learn and code in node.js. Have not created anything >> with it but have gone through a lot of tutorials. Shopping cart is my main >> hurdle for coding in node. As most projects usually require cart >> integration these days. >> >> >> On Saturday, August 3, 2013 5:20:56 AM UTC+5:30, ryandesign wrote: >>> >>> >>> 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. 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