Why Nooku?
Nooku is a RAD PHP framework to build web application as many other out there, It still is at an alpha level and therefore it may not be as complete as others more mature fw are, so the question is: why nooku?
Because Nooku even being at this early stage offer something that no other fw out there offer you: a platform (namely joomla 1.5, joomla 1.6, joomla 1.7 and nooku server) that all together cover more then 3 % of the whole internet. Those means it offer a patform with an already well established market.
So if you are building a RESTful web-app or service you can start experimenting, debug and improve part of the code you are writing with an actual real customer base, allowing you to not only improve code as you go but also better understanding the problem you are trying to solve and fine-and-refine you market-fit.
But things don’t stop here, as this process allow you to reuse the code you are writing at this early stage to build the bigger project on top of it, and again from this bigger project you can reuse part of the code to nurture you joomla product, get feedbacks, improve it, iterating on this over and over…that’s just pure start-up nirvana!
What’s more being fully HMVC and RESTFul and supporting json & jsonP out of the box, your way to build pure html5 or native mobile app to leverage your code, app and service is just behind the corner.
Bootstrapping is the hardcore way in the start-up world, and nooku allows you to just do that. Its like the perfect soundtrack for everyone who want to direct and produce an innovative indy film that can ends up in the box-office, of course getting there is your job;-). But being innovative while keeping bootstrapped is not an easy task, especially if we consider that true innovation is commonly accepted in its broader meaning but take a while to get accepted and adopted by users in practice as it imply new metaphors, new mindsets, workflows and approaches. In this way nooku is also innovative and not many people get it, hope that with this blog you can understand at least why the new nooku methapor can absolutely make sense.
