Open Source Journey

Welcome to my new blog on creating my first open source project. Normally I would on projects on my laptop and never publish them but this time I am going to start in the open. I just created my first public git repo and I will be commiting as I go. Here is a link the repo https://github.com/teesquare/core

I want to build a design review workflow tool, to help large team organize their design review process. Something lightweight but meaningful and helpful to the development team. Pull Requests for Design Reviews

I always use these projects to help me learn new technology and I am undecided which framework to use. I have used Django for a lot of projects and I have become bored of it and wanted something new. I am interested in using Scala/Play Framework again (I used it way back when it first came out) or completely on the other scale I am thinking of using Laravel Spark which is a PHP (!?) web framework. I messed about with PHP about 10 years ago and was left haunted by the language and the craziness of it all but I hear so many good things about Laravel. Spark is a application shell built upon Spark.

One of my frustrations with creating web applications is the amount of boiler plate work I have to invest. The layout, the user management, stripe integration. Supposedly Spark has created all this code so I can focus on my core application.

The drawback to spark is the price, $99 for one license, Play is free. My plan is to start with Spark, try to develop the app as far I can get without losing my mind and if it fails then I will switch back to Scala Play

License bought, now its time to go download PHP Storm. I hope the JetBrain tool support is mature for Laravel