Exploring patterns for using server-side JavaScript along side existing (non-JavaScript) application architectures. In other words, how to use *some* SSJS without rewriting your entire app in JS.

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

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

3. Pep Talk

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

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

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

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

8. Server-side JavaScript Cheat Guide

9. It's all been done before

10. JavaScript: engine != environment

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

13. node.js is a special type of JavaScript environment

14. socket/network/web server + application server

15. Alternate usage patterns

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

29. Middle-End patterns

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

31. BikechainJS http://bikechainjs.com

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

33. Server-side JavaScript FTW

34. Questions?

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