Future of node.js

1. The Future of Node.js
Sarunyhot Suvannachoti (Kao)
Software Engineer @ jitta.com

2. The Essence of Node
• JavaScript on the Server
• More than server-side JavaScript
• Fabulous framework
• Asynchronous programming
• Module-driven development

3. JavaScript on the Server
• Easy to learn
• Lets you unify your client/server logic
• Productivity
• Already in the Enterprise (Paypal,Netflix,Walmart)

4. Trending repositories on GitHub
Language Active Repositories
JavaScript 323,938
Java 222,852
Python 164,852
CSS 164,585
PHP 132,848
Ruby 132,848
C++ 86,505
C 73,075
Shell 65,670
C# 56,062

5. Trending repositories on GitHub

6. More than server-side JavaScript
• Web server
• Robot controller (tessel.io)
• Command line application
• Proxy server
• Music machine
• Desktop application tooling: NW.js

7. Desktop Application (torrent)

8. Desktop Application (editor)

9. Desktop Application (music)

10. Desktop Application (game)

11. Fabulous framework
• Express
• Restify (for building REST APIs, automatic DTrace support)
• Hapi (configuration-centric framework)
• Sails (fast production-ready)
• Meteor (realtime application)

12. Asynchronous Programming
• Alternative programmer mindset
• API focus on callbacks,events and streams
• Single-threaded!

13. Asynchronous Programming
• Promises
• function* add() { }
• async await (ES7)

14. Module-driven development
• npm
• Simplicity
• Decoupled and reusable coding

17. The state of the registry
• 1400MM package downloads last
month
• 150,000 packages in the registry
• `Node` is moving faster than `Node.js`

18. Module-driven development
• npm focused on module-driven development
• ES6 Modules
• Module-driven development for the browser
• Browser tools: Browserify

19. Module-driven development for the
browser
bower install moment --save
npm install moment --save

20. The Future of Node: Node.js + io.js?

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23. Fork of Node.js
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25. Node.js Foundation
Fork of Node.js
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26. Mapping the Future of Node
• Debugability
• Better streams
• ES6 and beyond
• Track stable V8 releases (StrongMode,SoundScript)
• Focus on async API

27. Summary

28. Question?

29. Thank you!!!