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I came across this hackathon starter project a few weeks ago: https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter

Have not used it yet, but the stack (node.js, mongodb with mongoose, express) is similar to what I use in my day job so planning to start my next weekend project with it.

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I've played with it. It's nice. But in my defense, it's literally the only Node framework i've ever touched.

Had to switch out Jade for twig though. Significant whitespace for html templating... shiver

I've never seen Jade before.

Python + Jade + CoffeeScript + SASS (original syntax) = No more braces evar!

I like braces though. And raw html. And I don't think tools should enforce significant whitespace if they compile to languages which don't care about whitespace.

And this makes me horribly, terribly behind the times and now i'll just be in the angry dome...

Ha ha, that's what makes me a Pythonista and you not one :)

I like the idea because it (presumably) forces conformant html. The end result that gets sent to the user should be compressed and minified anyhow.

It's a fair cop.

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