Everything.js
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lived 649 days
It had a router, an ORM and a philosophy. It never had a user.
v0.0.9
Candles are counted in this browser only.
649 days
born died
Autopsy
- Cause of death
- Scope creep
- Stack recovered
- Last words
“rename everything (again)”final commit · 21 June 2019
- Mood at death
- Guilt
- Lines of code
- 31,077
Obituary
Everything.js set out to be the last web framework its author would ever need. It began as forty lines that wrapped an HTTP server.
Then it needed a router. The router needed dependency injection, the injection needed decorators, and the decorators needed a build step, which the framework also provided. A documentation site was started before version 0.1.
No application was ever built on it. The final commit, on 21 June 2019, renamed the core package for the fourth time.
What it taught me
A framework extracted from zero applications solves zero problems. Build the application first, twice.