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Hello,

Thank you for your comment.

First of all, I've made my usual search on Google to skip cross posting and I confirm that the previous discussion didn't appear in the results :

https://goo.gl/ybeiG8

By the way, as you earlier mentioned, the author seems to have little legitimacy on the topic :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11419443

However, his post is really insightful. On my side, I attended in one. Especially, I consider having tasted a coding bootcamp to be the most insightful and transformational experience in my entire life. Or simply said : a life-changing opportunity. But this one mostly teached Ruby. And I needed more, I wanted more. Mainly, JavaScript is the de facto language for the Web. Hence, the Web naturally led me to the best (and moreover Open Source!) bootcamp according to me : Founders & Coders. Clearly, after having quickly benchmarked all the other ones (including Hack Reactor), they have to my knowledge the highest requirements among all :

http://www.foundersandcoders.com/academy/#apply

Even after my first bootcamp, I still needed a few weeks to reach 5 Kyu Codewars :

http://www.codewars.com/

I have never been so proud of myself and at the same time it was a lesson of life by teaching me humility. Mastery is still a long way off but I think that this quote could be a great resume :

http://thefullstack.xyz/excellent-javascript-developer/

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort,…

Yes, there was some controversy in the Node.js world because he sold the project of Express to StrongLoop just as he was leaving for Go. I think it was totally a problem on how things were communicated and that he had really a good intention. What didn't help much though is that StrongLoop then left the project unattended so the main person contributing to it (Doug Wilson) wasn't even acknowledged.

So if an open source project is being sold:

- Make sure everyone knows it's because it'll be better handled and not because of the money.

- At least get a decent amount of money! According to TJ it was half a month worth of money.

- If you are the company buying it don't leave it unattended afterwards.

Anyway, now TJ is surely remembered with a lot of gratitude in the Node.js community and I'm so happy he helped it grow so much!

This is all better explained here (and read the comments for TJ opinion): http://thefullstack.xyz/history-express-javascript-framework/