Giving up on node.js / Flatiron / hook.io

[Marak Squires]

Internet Friends -

I'm sure it will come as a pleasant surprise for most of you to hear I'm leaving node.js for good. I'll also be stepping down from any involvement with Flatiron and completely shutting down hook.io

In all honesty, I don't think there is much of a loss here for anyone.

The Flatiron framework is pretty much pointless and I'd advise against using it. I started to add some really good reflection features, but since my access has now been removed from Flatiron, I'll no longer be able to advance or maintain any of these features. 

The same advice goes for hook.io. hook.io was a great idea, but it's been systematically made obsolete by Nodejitsu in favor of a closed source priority solution. I'd love to be able to share this with you, but it's closed source, so thats that. I was rebuilding hook.io to use Flatiron, but without the ability to work on Flatiron anymore, it's all moot.

It's really sad to wind all this down, but I don't have a choice in the matter. I've been fired from Nodejitsu and no longer have the resources or git commit access to move any of this stuff forward.

Anyway, thanks for all the good and bad times and goodbye.

[Dave Ryan]

Hey Marak 

Sad to hear all this. 

You've entertained  me tonnes and I've learnt a lot from your code. 

best of luck with Future endeavours.

cheers _dR

[Jason Kraus]

I know this is a late response but I just discovered Flatiron and I found it's modularity, RVP pattern, and use of Schema JSON with resources to be refreshing in the JS MVC ecosystem of solutions. I found myself implementing something similar within Django called hyperadmin and was excited to see a fresh take at some of the same challenges. IMHO flatiron had amazing potential thanks to you and I am sorry for what happened.

I see that you are actively working on: https://github.com/bigcompany/big
Am I to assume that big has much of the awesomeness that flatiron has?

And thank you again for all your hardwork in the open source community.