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Towards Pasta Code Nirvana: Using JavaScript MV...

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March 26, 2014
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Towards Pasta Code Nirvana: Using JavaScript MV* to Fill Your Programming Ravioli

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Transcript

  1. Towards Pasta Code Nirvana Using JavaScript MV* to Fill Your

    Programming Ravioli Bret Davidson | NCSU Libraries

  2. Metaphors for describing software architectures.

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  8. Modular Reusable Testable

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  10. Why JavaScript?

  11. Brief History of JavaScript Created by Brendan Eich in 1995

    IE support in 1996 Standardized by ECMA in 1997 JJG coins AJAX in 2005 V8 JS engine in 2008 JS MVC circa 2010

  12. JS is everywhere

  13. JS is fast(er)

  14. JS is the lingua franca

  15. What is JS MV*? MVC - MVP - MVVM

  16. Approximate Architecture Models Views Controllers Data Binding

  17. Hello Code4Lib! Change MSG Hello Code4Lib!

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  20. MV* Benefits Abstracts DOM interaction Encourages code reuse Enforces modularity

    Improves testability

  21. Architecture that supports best practices.

  22. When to use? JS heavy applications Interactive applications Distributed applications

    Modern devices/browsers

  23. Who is using MV*? USA Today Rdio Hulu Discourse Youtube

    on PS3 General Motors

  24. When to avoid? Need to support no-JS users App is

    document driven (blog) Older devices/browsers

  25. Frameworks Angular Ember Backbone Many Others

  26. MV* Throwdown http://todomvc.com/

  27. My Experiences

  28. Suma github.com/cazzerson/Suma

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  30. Community

  31. Loose Coupling

  32. Cognitive Load

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