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Discussion on: Is it worth developing MERN Stack Template ?

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Khokon M. • Edited

Actually there are few templates out there. Sure the amount is still not that huge as WordPress or PHP templates. But it's growing day by day.
I would like to point out a few things:
JavaScript ecosystem is not that straightforward as PHP is. Because, you have dozens of frameworks coming every week. and it becomes harder to decide which one to choose if you start comparing.
And it's a bit complicated for most users to setup NodeJS projects on the server compared to PHP projects.
Because, cPanel is being widely used and it's super simple for any normal users. And Unlike PHP projects, it's hard to provide a simple installer file on NodeJS projects and so on!
Overcome these issues, and you'll do great!
Good Luck

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Zelal Hossain

Lovely reply. I agree with you.

  1. Its harder to decide which framework should used: Yes , but I think we can decide the framework based on poplarity, documenation availability . I mean, atleast we are within javascript enviroment.

  2. Complicated Deployment Proccess: Yes, You are right, When I started first node app deployment and found its really complicated. and its tooks lot of time to understand. So when some non-tech guy will purchase our template how he will handle that.
    Also every app require lot of env configuration- Like- mongodb, cloudinary, private, public key and mush more config.

I was thinking how can go with few click installation process and even a non-tech guy can do that.
So far solution is dockarise everything to reduce the installation proccess and creating helpful documetaion
I have lot of progress to simplify the installation proccess but still I`m playng on it.

Thank you

Best wishes
Zelal