There is many interesting platforms out there to develop Web applications, like .NET, Spring, ruby on rails, Django, LAMP, Meteor, and so on. In this presentation, you will discover Wakanda a Model driven NoSQL / SSJS platform built on Web standards. You will see how a project starts, can be designed, tested, developed by a team, debugged, administrated, maintained, and then how to update it in the future. We will compare to some existing platforms and why Wakanda could make you more efficient.

1. From Web App Model Design
to production with Wakanda
Alexandre Morgaut - 4D @amorgaut
@wakandasoft

2. Presentation
W3C AC member
Web Architect
JS Expert
REST Lover
NoSQL Fanboy
@amorgaut
http://about.me/amorgaut

3. Agenda
Wakanda Architecture
How a Project start!
Model vs Mockup
Test-Driven Development
Team Work & Source Control
Debugging
Deployment & Administration
Evolutions & Refactoring

4. wakanda

5. Open Source Cross-platform
development and deployment system
for model-driven web-based applications

6. wakanda.org
@wakandasoft
JSeverywhere.org
@JSeverywhere

7. Wakanda
Wakanda Server
(aka WakandaDB)
Wakanda Application Framework
Wakanda Studio
DataStore Model Editor
Code Editor
GUI Designer
Debugger
Users & Groups
AdministrationExtensions
REST/JSON
JSON-RPC

8. WakandaDB
Wakanda Server
(aka WakandaDB)
Your Development Tools
Visual Studio, XCode, NetBeans, Eclipse,
Maqueta, Codio, Cloud9, Orion, Sencha Architect
+
Chrome Web Inspector
Your Server Framework
Java, .NET, node.js PHP, Python, Ruby...
REST/JSON
Webkit debugger protocol 1.0
& Firebug Crossfire protocol
Your Web app Client Framework
ExtJS, Sencha Touch, Kendo UI, Backbone.js...
Your native app Client Framework
iOS, Androïd, .NET...
REST/JSON, Git

9. Standard Based
W3C
- XMLHttpRequest, WindowTimer,
- Web Storage, Web Worker, File, FileSystem, Blob, ...
CommonJS
- Modules, Package, Unit Test
Other
- Console, JSON, JSON-RPC, REST
(+ some node.js support)

10. Webkit JavaScriptCore
Open Source, multi-threaded, preemptive, thread-safe, 64bits
Fast (2 JIT), strict mode (ES5), well structured & documented
aka SquirrelFish Extreme & Nitro Extreme
http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/JavaScriptCore

11. Wakanda Circle of Friends

12. How a project starts

13. “Expression of a requirement”
“Birth of an innovative idea”
“First usage of an innovative technology”

14. Model vs Mockup

16. Mockup
Fast representation of a “vision”
Human friendly shared idea

17. Model-driven
GUI is too platform specific
Removes distraction from GUI
Focus on requirements

18. Test-Driven
Development

19. Test Service
var testCase = {
name: "testCaseName",
testFails: function() {
Y.Assert.isFalse(true);
},
testPasses: function() {
Y.Assert.isFalse(false);
}
};
http://doc.wakanda.org/Technical-Notes/Advanced/Writing-Unit-Tests-in-Wakanda.300-959974.en.html
YUI Test
Client or Server JS tests

20. CommonJS Unit Test
var
! assert,
! accountSvc;
assert = require('assert');
TwilioScript = require('wakanda-twilio/core/twiml').TwilioScript;
exports['test response'] = function Twilio_Test_Twiml_response() {
var script = new TwilioScript();
var twiml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>n';
twiml += '<Response>n';
twiml += '</Response>'
assert.strictEqual(script.toString(), twiml, 'simple response ok');
};};
exports['test hangup()'] = function Twilio_Test_Twiml_hangup() {
var script = new TwilioScript();
script.hangup();
var twiml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>n';
twiml += '<Response>n';
twiml += '<Hangup />n';
twiml += '</Response>'
assert.strictEqual(script.toString(), twiml, 'hangup response ok');
};
http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Unit_Testing/1.0

21. Team Work
& Source Control

23. Team Work
Server
- Model split in SSJS modules
- Service & RPC modules, Shared Workers
Client
- Web pages & Web Components
- Custom Widgets
- Themes, application.css
Tool
- Studio Extensions

24. Source Control
Commit
Log / History
Pull / Push on Github
Pull / Push on Server

25. Debugging

26. Wakanda Internal Debugger

27. Web Inspector

28. Deployment
& Administration

29. Server Administration

30. Data Browser

31. Experimental Tool
Deployment
Gandi VPS

32. Evolutions
& Refactoring

33. Application
Evolutions
Sandboxed Modules (libs, RPC, Services)
Sandboxed Web Components
Updatable DataModel
- auto type conversion
- Extended Models
- openRemoteCatalog()

34. Wakanda Evolutions
Short releases cycle
More and more Standard support
Open Source & Enterprise Editions

35. Q & A
San Francisco, CA - Oct. 25th
http://jseverywhere.org
Wakanda
http://wakanda.org
@jseverywhere
@wakandasoft
Client and Server JavaScript APIs Community Group
http://www.w3.org/community/jseverywhere/