[nodejs] MEAN.js for a large project?

[Carlos Carcamo]

I need some suggestions about building a large project with node.js.

What I'm trying to do is a tourism related website, I expect to
receive a bunch of visits per day and serve a large amount of info for
users and clients.

I want to store info about places (longitude and latitude), photos,
comments, etc.
Also i'm planning to create a mobile app for android, and maybe iOS,
that uses info from my website.

I chose node.js for this task and MongoDB for data store.

I recently found some info about MEAN.js and I read a little bit the
docs and I found it great.

But I wonder if some of you have used MEAN.js before, if yes, would
you recommend it for a large project?

Is there any recomendation for a large project? I want to use a
framework because I will work with a team and I would like that we
work with the same logic.

Some things that we would like to use:
- Node.js and some framework
- MongoDB and Mongoose
- jquery (some plugins like parallax and others)
- Angular.js, react.js (maybe)
- Template engine compatible with angular.js
- Google maps API
- Passport
- websocket (maybe later)
- etc.

We would like to build an scalable website.

some suggestions?

I'll appreciate your comments, thanks in advance.

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[Matt]

Any of those will work great. I work on a large project with Node, Angular and PostgreSQL (so not MongoDB, but some people are perfectly happy with Mongo - I don't personally recommend it myself but I'm strong with SQL, and understand the reasons people prefer Mongo).

For server-side templates we just use Jade. It works well. But mostly it's just used to generate fairly static pages - Angular does all the heavy lifting.

I don't recommend the Google Maps API for things like geolocation. The licensing is too restrictive for our usage, but YMMV. The license basically says you have to display a google map with any usage of it. That might work for you. We maintain our own mapping of postcode to lat/long for this purpose which has worked pretty well so far. I've yet to find a great cloud service for the queries we needed to be able to do, and postcodes/zips don't change that often.

Matt.

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[Tom Boutell]

We've built several sites just like that with the Apostrophe CMS:

http://apostrophenow.org/

Apostrophe is an open-source CMS powered by Node, MongoDB, and of course JavaScript on the browser side as well. We created it because we wanted to take the good ideas from our previous PHP-based incarnation of Apostrophe and apply them in a better, faster framework like Node.

Check out these tourism-related sites we built with it:

http://phillyfunguide.com/

http://www.delawareriverwaterfront.com/

These all take heavy local tourism traffic without any problem. 

We've built a lot more but these examples are the most similar to what you are doing I think.

Apostrophe uses Mongodb and Express. It doesn't use Angular - we generate frontend pages with the Nunjucks templating language and a lighter JavaScript idiom of our own - but you can use it for your own components if you want to.

Our existing map module would take you a long way toward finishing your project I suspect.

[jerome]

Thanks for sharing the Apostrophe CMS project. I've been looking at the blogging platform Ghost, and was wondering if there was a more fully-featured CMS written in Node.

[Carlos Carcamo]

Thanks to all for answer, I will take a look to apostrophe...
I will continue with MEAN.js for my project, I have another project on
my head, I will take a look to apostrophe for my next project.

thanks!!!

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