Developing large NodeJS libraries with Cloud9 IDE

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1. donderdag 27 oktober 2011 ()

2. @mikedeboer donderdag 27 oktober 2011 () * I’m Mike de

   Boer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands * this is the nick I use everywhere... twitter, github, etc. * feel free to shout out at me with questions after this talk

3. I’m a PHP developer donderdag 27 oktober 2011 () *

   yes, you read that correctly! * this is what I started with back when I was sixteen * did lots of work for multinationals like Porsche, Michelin and Coca-Cola

4. donderdag 27 oktober 2011 () * and created a thing

   called ZMG * a media gallery component for Mambo CMS, later Joomla! * gave me lots of fame, not so much fortune * important lessons learnt in developing large libraries and maintaining huge codebases

5. donderdag 27 oktober 2011 () * moved to the client

   * built the eBuddy.com IM client - Ajax wasn’t coined yet! * master of the browser, f*ck yeah!

6. Back to the Server with NodeJS donderdag 27 oktober 2011

   () * NodeJS came into our lives * whoopy! JS on the server! * evented IO was something new and made sense - JS happened to be a perfect fit

7. donderdag 27 oktober 2011 () * except, developers ended up

   in a world of pain... no tools! * no solid IDE * we built one.

8. donderdag 27 oktober 2011 () * enter Cloud9 IDE. *

   first tagline was: for javascripters , by javascripters * we took it online, into the cloud with c9.io

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11. D E M O donderdag 27 oktober 2011 ()

12. Big Library: jsDAV https://github.com/mikedeboer/jsDAV Port of http://code.google.com/p/sabredav/ donderdag 27 oktober

    2011 () * jsDAV is a library that enables each and every NodeJS app to be a WebDAV server * extensible, lightweight and fast * with NodeJS’ evented IO it seemed like a perfect fit for WebDAV * show demo with OSX Finder

13. 1. Grok CommonJS modules you’ll need them! donderdag 27 oktober

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14. 2. Choose your module mgmt Git submodules or npm dependencies?

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15. 3. Choose your Async controller jsDAV uses https://github.com/fjakobs/asyncjs donderdag 27

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16. • Async: https://github.com/caolan/async • Promises: https://github.com/kriskowal/q • AsyncJS: https://github.com/fjakobs/asyncjs •

    Step: https://github.com/creationix/step • Streamline.js: https://github.com/Sage/streamlinejs • and MANY more... *sigh* donderdag 27 oktober 2011 ()

17. 4. Pick a code reuse pattern jsDAV uses simple prototypal

    inheritance donderdag 27 oktober 2011 ()

18. • Standard JS: http://howtonode.org/prototypical-inheritance • NodeJS style: http://blog.nodejitsu.com/using-sys-inherits-in-node-js • My

    Styletm donderdag 27 oktober 2011 ()

19. 5. Tests are everything jsDAV uses Litmus, a standalone C

    program, there is a NodeJS library for each testing style donderdag 27 oktober 2011 ()

20. • http://debuggable.com/posts/unit-testing-with-node-js: 4b647d40-34e4-435a-a880-3b04cbdd56cb • http://github.com/caolan/nodeunit • AsyncJS TestRunner (https://github.com/fjakobs/asyncjs) •

    BDD: http://vowsjs.org/ • (REST) API’s: http://indexzero.github.com/api-easy • Client-side on the Server-side: http://zombie.labnotes.org/ • Cloud9 runs tests automagically donderdag 27 oktober 2011 ()

21. 6. Documentation README.md, docblocks, wiki, examples, etc. donderdag 27 oktober

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22. 7. Push to Github Early and often! donderdag 27 oktober

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23. 8. Use Github Issues, wiki, pull-requests... they’re awesome! donderdag 27

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24. 9. Publish to NPM So others can find it :)

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25. 10. Spread the word Publish to the NodeJS Modules wiki

    page: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki Send an ‘ANN: my new awesome lib’ to the mailing list: http://groups.google.com/ group/nodejs donderdag 27 oktober 2011 ()

26. Now go forth and build! questions? donderdag 27 oktober 2011

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