What is Hoodie?
We want to enable you to build complete web apps in days, without having to worry about backends, databases or servers, all with an open source library that's as simple to use as jQuery.
Hoodie is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
Hoodie is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Hoodie's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Hoodie?
Companies
Developers
13 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Hoodie.
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Hoodie's Features
- Offline by default: Hoodie stores data locally first and syncs them in the background when possible. Great for mobile applications
- One-line signup/signin/signout/resend password and other account management functions
- Document-based storage with CouchDB: no building database schemas
- Event system: easily listen for changes in the data to trigger view updates
- JavaScript and JSON on every layer. Even the database queries are JS
- Convenient, super simple local dev setup that optionally even configures .dev-domains for you
- Deploy to Nodejitsu with minimal effort
- Flexible, npm-based plugin system in case you need more capability
- Send multi-part emails with attachments from the client
Hoodie Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Hoodie?
Buffalo
Buffalo is Go web framework. Yeah, I hate the word "framework" too! Buffalo is different though. Buffalo doesn't want to re-invent wheels like routing and templating. Buffalo is glue that wraps all of the best packages available and makes them all play nicely together.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
