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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