Server-side JavaScript for the rest of us

Server-side JavaScript For The Rest Of Us Kyle Simpson @getify http://getify.me

Server-side JavaScript node.js Middle-End (BikechainJS)

Wait... you're not using server-side JavaScript in all your apps?

You haven't replaced Apache with Node.js yet?

You still write PHP/Java/RoR/ Python/C# code on the server?

It's OK. You're just like the rest of us.

Server-side JavaScript Cheat Guide

JavaScript: engine != environment

You still need a web server* *unless your SSJS environment is a web server

node.js is a special type of JavaScript environment

socket/network/web server + application server

reverse proxy https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy

backend web service php.js? http://phpjs.org

side (bypass) service example: http://goLook.at http://jsno.de/presentations/jsconf2011/#slide6

Middle-End Architecture In between the front-end and the back-end is... the Middle-End

Middle-End? templating, URL routing, data validation, data formatting, ajax, caching, cookies/headers

Why? The Middle-End is meant to bring order to the general dis-order of today's web stack architectures

CVC (vs. MVC) CVC (Clients-Views-Controllers) is an alternate pattern for web application architecture that leverages the Middle-End

CVC Middle-End is not a framework or library... it's the removal of abstractions to expose and control what's already there... better

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wordpress (or any CMS) http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/json-api/

BikechainJS http://bikechainjs.com

http://shortie.me https://github.com/getify/shortie.me

http://nodejs.org Kyle Simpson @getify http://getify.me http://bikechainjs.com http://middleend.com http://start.middleend.com

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