Harp – Open-source web server with built-in pre-processing

by Osmose • 13 years ago

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casca• 13 years ago

Nice idea as a faster incremental development tool, but not something that one should run in production.

tlrobinson3• 13 years ago

Why not? Stick an HTTP cache (Varnish, Cloudflare, whatever) in front of it, and I see no reason not to do the preprocessing on the fly.

Also: "Harp apps run directly with the built-in web server, or exported to HTML, CSS & JS, putting you in full control of your production environment."

nerdburn2• 13 years ago

I agree, I'd run it production. Full disclosure: I know the team. But I'm a fan of the approach!

dsl• 13 years ago

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

tlrobinson3• 13 years ago

It would be cool to support CommonJS modules in the browser using Browserify or similar as well.

nerdburn2• 13 years ago

Yea, CommonJS would be rad.

freshhawk• 13 years ago

Not a solution to a problem I have* but I like the choice to carve out a new niche and experiment with a different mix of features made prominent in the web/app server.

* Unless my assumptions about the control over the caching of various template fragments and rendering work is wrong, which is totally possible.

colevscode2• 13 years ago

What are those assumptions? What problem do you have related to caching template fragments and rendering?

_pius• 13 years ago

Great idea. If they're not already doing it, they should make sure they implement the URL rewriting needed to support HTML5 pushState routing.

(c.f. http://readystate4.com/2012/05/17/nginx-and-apache-rewrite-t...)

mkoryak• 13 years ago

I would rather have a boiler plate express project that provides the same thing as this without any of the framework lock in.

Cool thing none the less if you already develop with that exact tech stack.

silentrob5• 13 years ago

Done - http://harpjs.com/docs/environment/lib

hcatlin• 13 years ago

No Sass support? :(

silentrob5• 13 years ago

We started with LESS and Stylus, but Sass is in the works.

necubi• 13 years ago

This is a pretty similar idea to my project Slinky [0], and it's definitely a productive way to do single page development. Slinky adds source dependency management (a.js depends on b.coffee), a built in proxy, concatenation/minification for final deployment and some other treats.

[0] http://mwylde.github.io/slinky/

tracker1• 13 years ago

It would be cool if they added a package.json file with the necessary dependencies and a start script defined.

antoinec• 13 years ago

I'm using hem, with a heroku hosting, which is doing the same kind of job basically, does harp provide any kind of value added ?

jonny_eh• 13 years ago

Nice pivot guys, congrats on finally launching!

Weren't you originally supposed to be similar to site44? i.e. Static site hosting using dropbox.

Why the change?

silentrob5• 13 years ago

We haven't changed. We are just launching our open source server / APF first, building a little more community around that and then we will launch Harp.io.

eli• 13 years ago

I'm curious: did you release the server first because the harp.io bits aren't quite ready yet? Or is building a community for the backend server intended to eventually drive customers to the hosted service?

asa400• 13 years ago

So unless I'm missing something, this is more/less Jekyll with generalized capability and less blog-focus? Looks interesting.

huu• 13 years ago

organized*, not orginized

zallarak• 13 years ago

Relevant: also check out Backlift (https://www.backlift.com/) -- it includes stuff like pre-processing and includes Dropbox integration + a backend + more.. A potential game changer in terms of dev time.

betadreamer• 13 years ago

I know these guys, I really like what they're doing

silentrob5• 13 years ago

Today we launched our open source tool, but we also have a hosted platform that is build on Dropbox. See harp.io for that.

We have hung out with the Backlift guys - they are awesome.

Cyranix• 13 years ago

Maybe I'm missing something from a design/marketing perspective, but... am I mistaken in thinking that the ice cream imagery totally unrelated to everything else?

On the whole, though, I love the idea. Hope I get a chance to try it out.

te_chris• 13 years ago

So how does this compare to yeoman?

colevscode2• 13 years ago

Awesome work! I love the deploy to github pages feature!

Harp – Open-source web server with built-in pre-processing

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