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BehindTheSite: A log of web technology stacks

48 points| pvorb | 11 years ago |behindthesite.com | reply

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[+] sergiotapia|11 years ago|reply
There's also StackShare which presents things in a nicer UI. For example, this is Trello's and Stackshare's stack:

http://stackshare.io/stackshare

http://stackshare.io/trello/trello

[+] aidos|11 years ago|reply
Bit OT but I see slackshare use keen.io (custom analytics). Has anyone else played with it and if so do you have any thoughts to offer?

I've been looking around for a custom analytics platform that I can pump a load of events into and interrogate later however I want. Of all the ones I've looked at, keen.io looks the most interesting from a developer flexibility stand point, but that's just from the outside. If anyone has experience I'd love to hear it.

[+] behindthesite|11 years ago|reply
Part of the goal was to condense the infomration to allow viewing companies side by side or quick browsing. I need to improve the search/filter to support that better though, and probably add a few more visual elements.
[+] pvorb|11 years ago|reply
Thank you for the great link to StackShare!
[+] wwweston|11 years ago|reply
Obviously not comprehensive, but I think it's interesting how relatively rare AngularJS is on that list. By contrast, I work in a shop that's gone in heavy for Angular on new projects over the last year or so, so it's easy for me to think it's taken over the world (and wonder why :/).
[+] delambo|11 years ago|reply
To that point, it's interesting how many claim that Backbone is yesterday's tech and that we are now 2 or 3 iterations of javascript frameworks past Backbone, yet most of these large sites are still using Backbone! It's possible that a lot of the sites would use something other than Backbone if they were built today, but it's clear that Backbone will be around for some time.
[+] username223|11 years ago|reply
It's hard to tell the jokes from the mistakes sometimes...

http://i.imgur.com/z9rdEzV.png

[+] behindthesite|11 years ago|reply
Assume you are referring to the mix of front end frameworks. That does look pretty funny, but the BBC uses different front-end frameworks on different parts of their site - some have been getting rebuilt with new while others were built a while ago.

eg. angular.js is used on the CMS side - Curation Kit, React JS is used on the new BBC Mobile Homepage, and ExtJS is used on their shop - http://shop.bbc.com/us/page/home. Mousing over should reveal some of the notes per technology - I could probably make that info easier to find.

[+] behindthesite|11 years ago|reply
Thanks for the post. Any feedback is appreciated! The site started out as a way for myself to keep track of technologies and usage I read about. After a while using markdown didnt work. Excel worked well but wanted to share what I found as well and a open google sheets doc didnt feel right :)
[+] wtbob|11 years ago|reply
All I see is a dark gray page. It appears that this requires JavaScript in order to display tables, text and links, which makes sense, since pure HTML doesn't support tables, text and links. Wait a second…
[+] behindthesite|11 years ago|reply
I should probably add themes and/or improve some of the contrast to improve readability. Good point.
[+] m3sh|11 years ago|reply
I wish it was not doing like search on technology. You choose "C" and everything with letter "C" comes, *sigh.
[+] behindthesite|11 years ago|reply
I wish it didnt do that too. I need to improve the search/filter support. Need to implement typeahead. pen to other suggestions.