Presentation about the serverside Javascript trend and opportunity. Presented at GTUG, the Portuguese Technical Users Group.

1. Javascript will
save us all
Back to the Future
ring
F e atu KS
RB UC
S TA
Mario Valente - 2010

2. http://meyerweb.com
/eric/thoughts/2008/10/22/
javascript-will-save-us-all/

3. Serverside
Javascript
Hope & Opportunity
ring
F e atu KS
RB UC
S TA
Mario Valente 2008

4. http://softwareas.com/
server-side-javascript-hope-and-
opportunity

5. Javascript will
save us all
Back to the Future
ring
F e atu KS
RB UC
S TA
Mario Valente - 2010

6. 2005 P*

7. 3-tier
Presentation (HTML)
Logic (?)
Data (SQL)

8. MVC

17. 2008 Codebits

18. http://softwareas.com/server-side-javascript-hope-and-opportunity
The real gap is in server-side
frameworks and hosting.
There's no killer app
Javascript server, a la what
Rails did to Ruby
If they can come up with a
solid virtualisation environment
for Javascript, they may be on
to a big winner. They could be
the BEA or JBoss of 2015

19. Agenda
● WTF (15 min)
● RTFM (15 min)
● ZOMG (15 min)
● FAIL/FTW (15 min)

20. WTF
● Architecture
● Design Patterns
● Models
● 3-tier
● MVC
● Separation of concerns
● KISS/DRY

21. WTF?!

22. WTF?!

23. WTF?!

24. WTF?!

25. WTF...?

26. RTFM
Javascript will save us all
● JS on the client
● JS on the server
● JS on the DB
● Functional goodness
● JSON all the way down
● REST all the way down

27. RTFM
Javascript on the server
● Pure(SpiderMonkey,V8,Squirrelfish)
● Rhino/JVM (Jaxer, AppJet, 10gen)
Javascript on the DB
● CouchDB (JS views)
● Other OO/XML/doc oriented DBs

28. RTFM
Pure (Spidermonkey)
● jslibs
● jsext
● jsdb
● No standards!
● Killer app/Rails
●Opportunity/JBoss2015

29. ZOMG!
Server side Javascript
Web Framework
● jslibs
● jsext
● jsdb NodeJS?
● No standards!
● Killer app/Rails
●Opportunity/JBoss2015

30. ZOMG!
Server side Javascript
Web Framework
● Standard API (file I/O,etc)
● JS based JSON doc DB
● JS appserver
● Pure HTML templating

31. JS
W Z
T
F O
?! M
G
!
JS/JSON/REST all the way
down!!

32. ZOMG!
Server side Javascript
Web Framework
● jslibs
● jsext
● jsdb NodeJS?
● No standards!
● Killer app/Rails
●Opportunity/JBoss2015

33. Intr
od u
ZOMG! ST
AR
ci n
g
A Future JS Web BU
CK
Framework S
MACIEIRA (HTML templating)
CIMBALI (API/web/appserver)
SICAL (JSON storage)

34. https://github.com/ry/node/wiki/modules
#database
(Awesome, Perstore)
#web-frameworks-micro, #web-frameworks-full
(Pintura)
#templating
(PURE)

35. ZOPE
- Acquisition vs Prototype OO
- Object based URL mapping
- Object persistence & versioning

36. https://github.com/ry/node/wiki/modules
#database
(Awesome, Perstore)
#web-frameworks-micro, #web-frameworks-full
(Pintura)
#templating
(PURE)

37. ill sa ve
sc rip tw
Ja va a ll!
us

38. VS.
FIGHT!

39. THE
END
FAIL/FTW ?
mfvalente@gmail.com