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Best JavaScript commenting library

13 points by jesseniem ↗ HN
At Viima, we're building a SaaS product where people should be able to comment things. We thought that since it's such a common need, there must be a good open source javascript library out there to do the job so that we wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel.

We scoured the web but couldn't really find anything that would work for us so we decided to build it by ourselves and have now released the library as open source: http://viima.github.io/jquery-comments/

What do you think? Is this the best js commenting library out there or is there something even better available?

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jjtykkyl
As the maintainer of the library I appreciate any kind of feedback
bbissoon
All-in-all, great job and kudos for getting it done! It looks good, functions as it should with the flexibility to fit in any given product.

I like these projects because it helps break the often-overlooked centralization of civil conversation. However, it requires knowledge most of your target audience wouldn't have i.e. Database, Handling Spam, moderating etc.

As much as centralizing conversations get under my skin, the strength in these products is the ease-of-implementation.

You plan on rolling this out into a full product or is this more a project for the OS community to snowball?

jjtykkyl
Thank you for the feedback! This project was targeted to developers who are implementing commenting feature to their service but do not want to reinvent the wheel. This is something that we stumbled into in Viima Solutions and decided to solve this problem as we needed the library for both desktop and mobile versions of our software. Rolling a a full product is not our goal at this point as there are already existing solutions, Disqus for instance. That is something that we consider after getting more feedback about the library and figuring out if there's a need for that.