Today Noah Kunin and I posted an announcement on the 18F blog about 18F Pages. Not an earth-shattering development, but an important one to support our objective of cultivating and spreading awareness of best practices across U.S. government technology development teams (and their customers).
Plus, it was a pretty cool hack. The idea went from conception to launch in just
over a day, thanks to our pre-approved technology stack, which is the same one
used for the 18F website and the 18F Public
Hub. Also, this is my first attempt at a small
Node.js server, published in our
18F/pages repository. As it turns out, just as I
suspected, the venerable ControlFlow pattern from the Old Company was a
perfect fit for Node’s asynchronous, event-driven application model. Granted, I
didn’t follow the pattern to the letter, but you can see in the SiteBuilder
class from
hookshot.js that I
got pretty close.