commonjs frameworks
DESCRIPTION
List of the some of the more interesting CommonJS frameworks for web development.TRANSCRIPT
CommonJS frameworksJanne Kuuskeri
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RingoJS
Node.js
Narwhal
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RingoJS
“Traditional” web framework
Runs on JVM (Rhino)
JSGI
Middlewares
Database access
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exports.middleware = [ 'ringo/middleware/gzip', 'ringo/middleware/etag', 'ringo/middleware/error', 'ringo/middleware/notfound'];
exports.urls = [ [ '/docs', 'myapp/docs', 'getDocument' ], [ '/', 'myapp/actions' ]];
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Node.js
Evented I/O
Reactor pattern
Asynchronous
Runs on V8
A lot of packages available
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Narwhal
Runs on node, JSC and Rhino
Many CommonJS specs implemented
“Moving target”
Many packages available
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Conclusions
Is JavaScript ready for the server?
Easier for startups and new apps
More limited support for legacy app integration
CommonJS is good initiative, time will show how it turns out
Node.js (and SSJS) is really hot at the moment
Learn the language if you are going to use it
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Links
https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules
http://ringojs.org/
http://www.persvr.org/
http://redis.io/
http://www.mongodb.org/
http://couchdb.apache.org/
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