flow: a living full-stack framework for the web

flowA living full-stack framework for the web

OOPSLA '97

Web browsers presuposing format = dark ages

Meanwhile…

• Google happens

• Web “rich” applications

• All kinds of full-server-stacks spread (RoR, Django, Seaside and Aida and a loooong etc.)

Then Gmail happens…

(not just happens but people actually loving it)

Fast forward a bit…

AngularJS teaches the browser “new tricks”

1. Composition AKA dependency injection !

2. not-presuposed formats AKA element directives

AngularJS is just the beginning of an experiment that works

wait.. so you say people telling the browser what the format is, had become the new normal?

Oops! if you can’t even do the normal tricks, is not that you can’t deliver cool, is that you’re not even a market option for the

incoming generation. Oh snap! Market lost without even noticing!

Great options out there…

• Real-time is default

• Designer friendly

• Engineer friendly

Hold on.. designers-friendly like in…?

The tools you’re going to use in the next 2 to 5 years are in this very moment in the designer's “drawing boards.”

How many designers love working with you (and your tools)?

What tools you made to help them? (so how many cool products are you expecting as output then)

That’s the kind of designers friendly we're talking about

Focus is on SPASingle Page Applications

Why Smalltalk?If things are so good out there, why not just move on and embrace those?

!Why even bother with Smalltalk?

Beside clients asking for projects with its features, is because it makes you feel the force. Why would you ignore mastering it? !It’s the language design principles. Smalltalk rewards more than any other: !• Intuition • Discovery • Personal mastery

What do we have now?

Great foundation!Still not as productive as Meteor

for a first demo done in 60 minutes (hard limit) !

The web is messy, we need some additional help

flowA living full-stack framework for the web

flow

1. A living full-stack framework for the web !

2. Smalltalk for startups !

3. A framework with a mission

flow’s mission

Flow's mission is to provide consultants, startups and software houses with a competitive Smalltalk full-stack framework that allows them to quickly deliver a demo with all the modern html5 features the market expects today (2014). !The idea is that they can tactically use this framework to keep momentum up among their prospects and clients and scale things to full successful projects delivered by kickass productive teams or individuals.

Some features

1. Two-way data binding !

2. (micro) Templates !

3. Realtime

Possibilities?

1. Hackathons, maker spaces, StartupWeekend & many Startup programs !2. Design Thinking, prototyping stage for corporate innovation !3. Consultants, software houses and vendors can win fast on demos of Single Page Application projects !4. Startups using it, eventually getting funded

Demo

Smalltalk gave me a lot. !

I feel very grateful to the Smalltalk community. Is my privilege to be able to give something in return and hopefully flow helps others like is helping me. !

This is my way to say: !

Thank you fellow Smalltalker

MIT license

all for the good!github.com/flow-stack/flow

flow is a mission with a

curated project

Contributions?

Really easy: you can add your feedback or idea in a Trello card here, choose any card

you want to help with and push your feature!

QA? FAQThanks!

Sebastian Sastresebastian@flowignconcept.com@sebastianconcptlinkedin.com/in/sebastiansastre