Nancy FX - web development framework for rest of us

Nancy FX - web development framework for rest of us

The speech I gave on Kiev ALT.NET

Transcript

1. Nancy FX
   web development framework
   for the rest of us
   

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2. Hi
   Hi, my name is
   , my name is
   @alexbeletsky
   @alexbeletsky
   

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3. Who is Nancy?
   

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4. require 'sinatra'
   get '/hi' do
   "Hi Frank!"
   end
   

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5. “ Sinatra is DSL for
   quickly
   creating web applications
   in Ruby
   with minimal effort “
   

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6. using Nancy;
   public class Module : NancyModule
   {
   public Module() {
   Get[“/”] = “Hi Nancy”;
   }
   }
   

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7. Created by:
   thecodejunkie (Andreas Håkansson)
   grumpydev (Steven Robbins)
   and community..
   

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8. “ Nancy is a lightweight, low-
   ceremony, framework for
   building HTTP based services
   on .Net and Mono. The goal of
   the framework is to stay out of
   the way as much as possible and
   provide a super-duper-happy-
   path to all interactions. “
   

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9. Micro
   Micro
   Framework
   Framework
   Minimum functionality
   Minimum functionality
   Minumum dependenices
   Minumum dependenices
   Minumum configurations
   Minumum configurations
   

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10. NuGet Driven
    NuGet Driven
    Development
    Development
    Core is almost “useless”
    Core is almost “useless”
    Features by NuGet packages
    Features by NuGet packages
    Adopting ruby Gem's approach
    Adopting ruby Gem's approach
    

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11. Super-duper-
    Super-duper-
    happy-path
    happy-path
    Kind of philosofy behind the Nancy FX
    Kind of philosofy behind the Nancy FX
    “
    “It just works”, “It is easy”, “Low friction”
    It just works”, “It is easy”, “Low friction”
    You have pleasure and fun
    You have pleasure and fun
    

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13. Modules
    primary Nancy concept
    ●
    Inherited from NancyModule
    ●
    Root to the root
    ●
    HTTP handlers in constructor
    

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14. Routes
    method + pattern
    ●
    GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
    ●
    Literal, Capture, RegExp
    ●
    Built in runtime
    

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15. Actions
    do something..
    ●
    Lambda expression
    ●
    Receives “parameters”
    dynamic
    ●
    Creates the response
    

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16. Views
    renders the model
    ●
    Different view engines
    ●
    HTML, Razor, Spark,
    SuperSimple
    ●
    Selected on runtime
    

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17. Model Binding
    bind model :)
    ●
    Nancy.ModelBinding
    ●
    Query string, request body..
    ●
    XML, JSON
    

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18. Bootstrapper
    DSL on top of IoC
    ●
    Mythical unicorn
    ●
    TinyIoC default container
    ●
    Ninject, AutoFac, Windsor
    

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19. Responses
    ●
    JSON, XML
    ●
    Redirect, Image
    ●
    Response by convention
    

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20. Everything
    is
    very
    simple
    

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21. Other side of the
    Moon
    

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22. Pre-mature
    Pre-mature
    ●
    version 0.9
    version 0.9
    ●
    lack of commutity “knowledge
    lack of commutity “knowledge
    base”
    base”
    ●
    documentation
    documentation
    

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23. Development
    Development
    ●
    not “really” TDD oriented
    not “really” TDD oriented
    ●
    testing is possible, but hard
    testing is possible, but hard
    ●
    lack of infrastrucure
    lack of infrastrucure
    

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24. Performance?
    Performance?
    (I might be wrong here)
    (I might be wrong here)
    ●
    everything is so “dynamic”
    everything is so “dynamic”
    ●
    custom pipeline
    custom pipeline
    ●
    views rendering
    views rendering
    

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25. Well,
    why should
    I learn it?
    

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26. To prototype fast (er)
    To prototype fast (er)
    To enjoy super-duper-
    To enjoy super-duper-
    happy path
    happy path
    To be better developer
    To be better developer
    

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27. Thank you.
    http://beletsky.net
    @alexbeletsky
    

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