nodejs tips and tricks

Not sure that the typical Node developer would also be a typical backend MVC webapp developer (eg CodeIgniter), but if so, what would make it easier to "integrate" the two? No, I have nothing pre-conceived

That's a great point, I certainly don't think there isn't anything like CI for nodejs in terms of ease of development, at least none of the frameworks I've encountered have that, well at the very least it isn't easy.

Even the full stack frameworks, like hapi and express seem lacking of essentials like db connections, emailers and file uploading which comes baked into CI.

Obviously, the concurrency of nodejs is making it hot in webdev nowadays. I'm considering investing time to learning this properly and writing a full cms for it actually, something which I have already done for codeigniter.

Have you tried making any apps with it Ciadmin?

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