Can I use Node to add email functionality to an existing site?

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I have a client with an existing straight up HTML/JavaScript site. No back end of any kind. He wants to add email functionality to it and I was thinking of using Node to do this for two reasons:

It seems like an extremely lightweight way to do it
He's talking about adding further functionality in the future.

What are the positives and negatives of this approach?

I disagree it being off-topic. It's a question about structure and design. — KevDog, Feb 02 '12 at 22:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 02 '12 at 21:46

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Positive: Node is really cool and you'll feel really cool writing the code.

Negative: The appropriate solution would take 1/10th the time in PHP, Perl, or Python and one of those languages is probably already installed on the server. In addition, Node is still in beta.

answered Feb 02 '12 at 21:46

Jonathan Rich

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node is not in beta. – Raynos Feb 05 '12 at 17:20

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 02 '12 at 21:45

I gues you could use the emailjs plugin for node. Even if node wasn't serving the site you could still interact with node from the static webpage through websockets using socket.io.

This all sounds a bit complicated but having been playing with node in the last week this stuff is amazingly easy to accomplish.

Can I use Node to add email functionality to an existing site?

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