Backlift seems like a great tool thank you for taking this step! I was setup in 5 minutes. The writing on the setup docs is straightforward so I think I could pass your link on to "less techy" friends and they would be able to be up and running quickly. The general docs are also well written. I am curious and have two questions: 1. Is the data stored in CouchDB, Mongo or other? and 2. The docs mention "eventually... deploying production websites used by millions." Please can you tell us the eventual date? Also I would like local development but I think I can guess that you guys will not prioritize this as your target users might not make it through the conversion funnel of getting the software setup on their own computers. All-in-all, bravo, I think you are on to something great here.
After reading this post, and trying backlift out, which by the way looks Very promising and easy to use (to boot)!<p>I came across the following bug: <a href="https://github.com/backlift/docs/issues/1" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/backlift/docs/issues/1</a><p>Cant wait for it to be resolved so I can give backlift a good go.
I got a beta invite about a week ago, but after reading how they only want you to use JST templates and such I avoided it. Is this actually the case or is that just the standard template (and documentation) recommendation?
Had a quick run through over lunch - looks <i>really</i> promising :)<p>Going to use it to rapid prototype an app this week - just one thing, any prospect of coffeescript in the pipeline?
nice stuff I will try it, but how is it going to work in The future? there is no information about this anywhere... maybe it's free for first adopters :) ?
I'm not sure how deep down the rabbit hole you want to go in terms of explaining to your users how to get a dev environment set up, but:<p>on OS X you need to run `brew install libyaml` before you install backlift via easy_install<p>Also the correct flag for easy_install is --upgrade, not --update.