Scaffold - Backend web service for mobile games and apps

This was a presentation for my final year project @ Plymouth University. BSc Hons Computing & Games Development - PRCO304

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1. Scaffold A simple back-end web service for mobile apps and games Elliot Blackburn
2. Agenda • Introduction • Overview • Demo and Testing • Question and Answer
3. The problem
4. Web based tools are becoming a staple for developers.
5. • Account / Sessions • Data Storage • Feature flags • Analytics • Exception logging
6. } Web based • Account / Sessions • Data Storage • Feature flags • Analytics • Exception logging
7. Indie mobile and game developers often lack the skills or time to build web based services
8. Scaffold… • Account and session management • Complex feature flags • Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) • Simple deployment and documentation
9. Architecture
11. Core technologies • Node.js - Server side logic • Yarn & NPM - Package managers • MySQL - Relational database • Redis - Session store • MongoDB - User data storage • Electron - Demo application
12. Libraries / frameworks • Express - Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework • Handlebars - Minimalist HTML templating language • Bookshelf - An ORM for Node applications • Knex - A JavaScript SQL query builder • Bluebird. - JavaScript promises • Mocha - Test runner • Should - Assertion library
13. The Project
14. Project Management • Git & GitHub - Version Control • Jekyll & GitHub Pages - User Documentation • GitHub Projects - Kanban board
15. DevOps • Vagrant - Scripted VM management • Ubuntu - Dev and target OS • Puppet - Scripted environment provisioning • Travis-CI - Build server with heavy GitHub integration • Heroku - Single-click deployment
16. Product Demo