As you may know, AppHarbify is built with Nancy. One of the reasons I decided to build it in Nancy, other than the fact that Nancy is awesome, was that I wanted to put together a real project that can be used as an example of Nancy in action. All the code for AppHarbify is available on GitHub.
To go with that I am planning to put together some blog posts talking about various aspects of the code. To start with I am looking at sessions.
An important goal of AppHarbify is to make as much open source software as possible be AppHarbor-friendly. To speed this process along I will be creating and/or finding many libraries to solve common problems.
Since finishing up my day job last week, I have had some time to dedicate to a project idea I had a few months ago. It is now time to formally announce it.
Say hello to AppHarbify!
AppHarbify aims to make deploying common software to AppHarbor even easier. So easy that it can be done by non-technical people or from mobile devices.
I recently came across iisnode’s built in support for the excellent node-inspector package. My iisnode host of choice being AppHarbor, I proceeded to set up a repo and make sure it all works there.
The good news is… It does!
Today AppHarbor announced beta support for Background Workers, I have been eagerly awaiting this announcement as it is something I need all the time when hosting sites.
Last week I contributed a tiny piece of code to the Code52 Metro.css project. My contribution was a node script that creates a boilerplate Node.js website for you using the Metro.css styles, Express and wires up the LESS compilation.
It’s about 8 months since my first contribution to an open source project. It was followed up minutes later by one to reverse all the accidental formatting changes I made. Damn you Visual Studio!
Time for a quick tutorial on how to get a site up and running on AppHarbor using Nancy and MongoDb.