What we did on our summer (working) vacation: content management with Apostrophe

[boutell]

@punkave, we didn't want to build yet another PHP-driven CMS site. So we built a whole slew of new sites and the open-source nodejs CMS that powers them in one wild weekend... okay, one very intense year.

Coding and refactoring as you go ain't easy, but we feel we've achieved a system that improves the lives of developers, editors and site visitors alike. The project has also spun off a number of standalone npm modules and jQuery plugins.

This talk will examine the most interesting bits of a production Apostrophe site, controversial choices made, what happens to a frontend developer's brain when you give them a JavaScript engine that isn't broken, and the merits of letting Mongo be Mongo.

The Apostrophe CMS sandbox project:

https://github.com/punkave/apostrophe-sandbox

Demo site:

http://demo2.apostrophenow.com/

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A few production sites powered by Apostrophe:

http://delawareriverwaterfront.com
http://moore.edu
http://themichaelsorg.com

About P'unk Avenue:

http://punkave.com

About the presenter:

Tom Boutell helped bring the PNG file into the world. He still can't quite believe he gets to code in a mostly-functional programming language all day.