Building your Webapp Muscles with Lift

1. Building your Web Application Muscles with Lift Matt Farmer May 6th, 2015
2. Sorry, I was sick.
3. Tonight’s Demonstration • A site for submitting and voting on puns. • URL: http://punerator.frmr.me • Source: https://github.com/farmdawgnation/punerator
4. Lift is a bit different.
5. The Seven Things 1. Lazy Loading 2. Parallel Page Rendering 3. Comet and AJAX 4. Wiring 5. Designer-friendly Templates 6. Wizard 7. Security
6. The Seven Things 1. Lazy Loading 2. Parallel Page Rendering 3. Comet and AJAX 4. Wiring 5. Designer-friendly Templates 6. Wizard 7. Security
7. Designer-friendly Templates
9. Lift is not an MVC framework.
10. Lift is not an MVC framework. No, I’m not insane.
11. Lift is not an MVC framework. No, I’m not insane. Well, maybe a little but not completely.
12. View First
13. MVC vs. View First
14. MVC vs. View First Typical MVC Framework User Framework Controller View
15. MVC vs. View First Typical MVC Framework User Framework Controller View Lift User Framework View Snippet Snippet Snippet
16. View First Snippet (NodeSeq) => NodeSeq
17. View First Snippet (NodeSeq) => NodeSeq CSS Transforms
18. View First Snippet (NodeSeq) => NodeSeq CSS Transforms
19. View First Snippet (NodeSeq) => NodeSeq CSS Transforms
20. View First Snippet (NodeSeq) => NodeSeq CSS Transforms Magic
21. View First Snippet (NodeSeq) => NodeSeq CSS Transforms Magic DSL (Domain Specific Language)
22. View First Snippet (NodeSeq) => NodeSeq CSS Transforms Magic DSL (Domain Specific Language) “.date *” #> invoice.date
23. View First Snippet (NodeSeq) => NodeSeq CSS Transforms Magic DSL (Domain Specific Language) “.date *” #> invoice.date CSS Selector
24. View First Snippet (NodeSeq) => NodeSeq CSS Transforms Magic DSL (Domain Specific Language) “.date *” #> invoice.date CSS Selector Content
25. View first
26. View first • Lift templates are just HTML.
27. View first • Lift templates are just HTML. • Lift finds things to change using CSS selectors.
28. View first • Lift templates are just HTML. • Lift finds things to change using CSS selectors. • Any designer who understands HTML and CSS can make changes relatively safely.
29. Let’s see some code.
31. Push to the Browser
32. COMETS!
33. Why not WebSockets? https://groups.google.com/d/msg/liftweb/ 1fa3rolbnvI/enV5CFm2Rd4J
34. Push to the Browser
35. Push to the Browser • What if we could represent the page a user’s browser is viewing as an actor?
36. Push to the Browser • What if we could represent the page a user’s browser is viewing as an actor? CometActor
37. Actors, but for pages Browser CometActor
38. Actors, but for pages Browser CometActor
39. Actors, but for pages Browser CometActor Render HTML.
40. Actors, but for pages Browser CometActor Render HTML. Push JavaScript.
41. Actors, but for pages Browser CometActor Render HTML. Push JavaScript. Session
42. Actors, but for pages Browser CometActor Render HTML. Push JavaScript. Session SessionVar
43. Actors, but for pages Browser CometActor Render HTML. Push JavaScript. Session SessionVar LiftActor Snippets
44. Lift handles the magic
45. Lift handles the magic • Loading the relevant client side bits.
46. Lift handles the magic • Loading the relevant client side bits. • Detecting when a CometActor isn’t needed.
47. Lift handles the magic • Loading the relevant client side bits. • Detecting when a CometActor isn’t needed. • Handling connectivity issues.
48. Let’s see some code.
50. Further reading • The Lift Website http://liftweb.net • Lift Template Projects https://github.com/lift/lift_26_sbt • The mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb • The Seven Things: http://seventhings.liftweb.net • The Lift Cookbook: http://cookbook.liftweb.net
51. Thank you. @farmdawgnation / farmdawgnation.com matt@frmr.me
52. Creative Commons Attributions • “Big Weight” https://www.flickr.com/photos/ennuidesign/ 2715836520 • “Are your eyeballs running?” https://flic.kr/p/4HbQj2 • “Comet Panstarrs March 2nd 2013” https://flic.kr/p/ dZdD7k