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The long road to 1.0

Hannah Wolfe
January 27, 2017

The long road to 1.0

Talk from Scriptconf 2017 in Linz. A tale of the technical challenges we have faced as an open source JavaScript application, trying to get Ghost to 1.0.

Hannah Wolfe

January 27, 2017
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  1. — by Hannah Wolfe — THE LONG ROAD TO 1.0

    A story of life, love and the pursuit of 100% test coverage
  2. No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can

    change the world – Robin Williams
  3. Seth Godin - Purple Cow / Tribes Jeff Atwood -

    Founder @ StackOverflow Darren Rowse - ProBlogger Leo Babauta - Zen Habits Paul Bradshaw - Head of HE Journalism (UK) Tucker Max - I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (that’s about €230k)
  4. JSON API Server Blog require() Client Admin HTTP GET /api/posts/?limit=3

    api.posts.browse({limit: 3}) {{#get “posts” limit=“3”}}
  5. Single page app? Ugly routing No data binding Memory issues

    Constant regressions Poor mobile support
  6. 9414 verbose stack Error: [email protected] install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build` 9414

    verbose stack Exit status 1 9414 verbose stack at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/root/.nvm/versions/node/v4.2.6/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/lifecycle.js:279:16) 9414 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:87:13) 9414 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:172:7) 9414 verbose stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/root/.nvm/versions/node/v4.2.6/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/spawn.js:40:14) 9414 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:87:13) 9414 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:172:7) 9414 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:821:16) 9414 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:211:5) 9415 verbose pkgid [email protected] 9416 verbose cwd /var/www/ghost 9417 error Linux 3.2.0-76-virtual 9418 error argv "/root/.nvm/versions/node/v4.2.6/bin/node" "/root/.nvm/versions/node/v4.2.6/bin/npm" "install" "sqlite3" "--loglevel=info" 9419 error node v4.2.6 9420 error npm v4.1.1 9421 error code ELIFECYCLE 9422 error [email protected] install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build` 9422 error Exit status 1 9423 error Failed at the [email protected] install script 'node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build'. 9423 error Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed. 9423 error If you do, this is most likely a problem with the sqlite3 package, 9423 error not with npm itself. 9423 error Tell the author that this fails on your system: 9423 error node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build 9423 error You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with: 9423 error npm bugs sqlite3 9423 error Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via: 9423 error npm owner ls sqlite3 9423 error There is likely additional logging output above. 9424 verbose exit [ 1, true ]
  7. app.get('/about/', function myController(req, res) { var myModelData = models.get('about'); //

    render the view called about.hbs res.render('about', myModelData); });
  8. Ghost 1.0 • New Editor • CLI Tool for install

    & upgrade • Ghost OAuth login system • Improved logging & migrations • Much, much more…