Yote

Yote is the best super-stack solution for any data-driven application

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Welcome to Yote!

Yote is the best super-stack solution out there for any data-driven application.

$ (sudo) npm install -g yote

The Super Stack

WTH is a super-stack solution? Glad you asked. A ‘super-stack’ is a made up term for a solution that provides a web application, native mobile apps, and api services out of the box.

Yote should always be the most comprehensive and flexible stack available. Right now that stack looks like this:

We’re not married to it, however. Yote originally used AngularJS as the client. As our average project complexity grew, we looked for a more performant solution and found it in React/Flux. Then we discovered Redux (which is awesome)… and so on.

If at some point in the future Vue.js or some other new fangled thing proves itself to be better in the wild, we reserve the right to switch things around.

We’ll do our best to support older versions through the CLI, but ultimately Yote is forward-looking in nature

Philosophy

Yote itself is not a framework. It’s not even really a library. Our idea is to simply take the best practices of the best frameworks and services available and package them up together in one place. Yote may change the nuts and bolts from time to time but the general philosophy will remain the same: Yote will always provide client-agnostic services and server-agnostic clients that are FLEXIBLE, EXTENDABLE, and PERFORMANT out of the box. The overall goal is to help developers roll out production ready super-stack solutions as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Prerequisites

We assume at least intermediate-level knowledge of Javascript. For the server you’ll need to MondoDB installed and running, and NodeJS >= v6.9.0. For the web client and mobile, it’s best to have at least a basic understanding of ReactJS and Redux.

Redux can be a little tricky to wrap your brain around — particularly the reducer mapping. If you want to simply trust us that it works, you can just follow the patterns and you should pick it up eventually.

Basic Usage

  1. Install the Yote CLI 
     $ (sudo) npm install -g yote
  2. Initialize your project 
     $ yote init MyApp 
 # ... this may take a minute
  3. Change directory to MyApp/server and start the web server 
     $ cd MyApp/server
 $ yote run-server

    The Yote server is now listening at http://localhost:3030 and watching for changes.

  4. In a new terminal, change directory to MyApp/client and start the client 
     $ cd MyApp/client
 $ yote run-client

    This runs the Yote client in watch mode to look for and recompile changes to the bundle.js

  5. Using a browser, go to http://localhost:3030 and you’ll see “Welcome to Yote!”

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