solved Any plans for a RESTful JSON API?

This may be a better post for the developers section or something but I was curious if there's any existing API or plans for any?

Seems definitely to be the future of web applications.

I've got another startup project and I'd love to use jamroom for it but a huge part of the business is going to be the mobile app and I need to develop them in-tandem (at least have similar code).

If not, this is my suggestion.
updated by @gcuezy: 10/23/14 12:35:39PM

Have you tried proxima? (its jamroom via RESTful JSON API)

http://jamroom.net/proxima/
(which redirects to)
http://www.proximacore.com/page/5/proxima-private-backend-as-a-service

I saw proxima mentioned but had no idea what it was and couldn't find it.

For some insane reason, both of those urls keep redirecting me to jamroom.net/gcuezy

Got out of incognito and I'm following.

Looks super interesting. I'm psyched!

needed the following button APPROVE to be clicked. its clicked now.

This is actually a bug in our multi-domain module - it's because the Proxima profile is "followers only". I'll try to get that working correctly as soon as I can.

I've not done much lately on Proxima - if you have any questions or suggestions feel free to post in the Proxima forum and I can help.

Thanks!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

I just went ahead and made the profile public - the URLs should work now.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

To be honest, I lost a little faith in Jamroom for various reasons (as someone who is mainly a UI/UX developer).

Proxima just redeemed it and it may be the best app ever, lol.

Thanks for your help @michael

Disclaimer: I haven't tested it yet, haha.

Thanks @brian !

build something cool.

I'd love to get some feedback on it, so let me know if you get a chance to check it out. It's been mostly designed as a backend for mobile apps, but in reality could be used as a backend server for almost any system (since it is all REST API based).

Thanks!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Yeah I think what I envision would be using the jamroom install as my 'admin' then use the API to create a separate HTML or node webapp and a mobile app using an MVVM framework like angular or backbone. I could avoid the smarty and million-template headaches and add in some cool functionality.

I'll try to tinker with it soon. I'll be sure to let you guys know what happens.

I've done quote a bit of Node work, and dinked around with both Angular and Backbone (as well as Ember) and actually find JS based templates to be more of a hassle to get them to do what I want, and end up having to have several slight variations of templates where in JR I could do it with one.

I know it's no the in-thing, but JR's old school server side rendering sure makes debugging easier and often smooth's out browser irregularities.

Do you use an IDE for JS development?

Thanks!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

I currently use Atom (from github) for everything, my debugging is the server console and/or Chrome's console. I hear you about the js templates... I actually prefer to use angular/backbone with good ol' HTML5 layouts and templates (although I do love stylus and jade templating).

I really enjoyed Node/ExpressJS for the lessons on MVC, routing, etc..
Not sure if you've looked at Meteor but it's a sweet Node framework that has the real-time updating built in (a la Angular), it's a complete package and deployment is like, 1 line..

Being a 90% front-end guy though I don't really have the time to devote to really building anything significant from scratch (especially with the learning curve). I think I can accomplish the same by customizing and making custom front-ends for existing software, this is why I love you guys, lol. I'm able to understand and hack together stuff on the backend, just not really my forte.

I mainly avoid node for the hosting costs/setup nightmares so keeping things PHP/HTML is usually how I end up.