Cooking REST API via Sails and Yeoman

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1. Cooking REST API via Sails and Yeoman
2. Agenda • Terminology; • Frameworks; • Magic;
3. Who am I? • Technical Leader and Consultant at Onix-Systems; • NodeJS Developer with 2+ years of experience; • Wasted 3 years of my life on PHP Development; • Core contributor of generator-sails-rest-api; • Contributor of numerous Passport strategies;
4. Before we start, let’s dive into terminology
5. What is REST? Representational State Transfer (REST) is the software architectural style of the World Wide Web. REST gives a coordinated set of constraints to the design of components in a distributed hypermedia system that can lead to a higher-performing and more maintainable architecture.
6. REST API is a web service that follows REST principles
7. What do we use to develop a web service?
8. Express, Koa, Hapi
9. I’m brave enough to say that Express, Koa and Hapi are not frameworks!
10. Framework is a much wider term
11. What is framework? • Frameworks have tool sets, different components for build solutions, etc…
12. What is framework? • Frameworks have tool sets, different components for build solutions, etc… • Frameworks contain frozen spots and hot spots;
13. What is framework? • Frameworks have tool sets, different components for build solutions, etc… • Frameworks contain frozen spots and hot spots; • Frameworks also rely on the Hollywood principle;
14. You can see my point now
15. Popular frameworks
16. Popular frameworks
17. Popular frameworks
18. Popular frameworks
19. Why Sails? Pros Cons Waterline Old JavaScript syntax Blueprints Grunt, Views, Web-socket Express Policies Rails-like Blueprints
20. Cons in Sails can be fixed
21. Making Sails better!
22. Making Sails better!
23. Let me create the generator!
24. Happy Birthday! generator-sails-rest-api
25. Let’s start cooking!
26. Thanks! @ghaiklor @ghaiklor @ghaiklor @ghaiklor