Technology

Languages

As we are fans of open-source it seemed like the only reasonable option to adopt and extend languages popular in the open source community. We've been working with PHP for over a decade before the company was founded and we still think of it as an old time favorite.

From the client it goes without question that JavaScript would be a natural choice (we systematically avoid semantic-style languages like Coffescript) and Node.js on the server side as it is the same syntax.

Components

Our objective was to create a stack that we could easily deploy small scale apps with high performance specs attached to them.

We are also a small group of people so we needed tools that made us do less work, not because we're lazy but with the prospect of being more productive in the long-run.

That meant creating a set of re-usable components/frameworks that we can off-load all the mundane tasks like unit testing and minifying to the dealt automatically. That way our end product is up to par without extra effort.