All Things Open

from rags to open-source

All Things Open
Raleigh, NC
October 2014

(http://allthingsopen.org/speakers/mike-mcneil/)
Video: http://youtu.be/MSkM4uqFsMI?t=13m43s

Transcript

1. from rags to open-source Raleigh, North Carolina 2014
2. Mike McNeil @mikermcneil github.com/mikermcneil
3. bdfl of the leading open-source MVC framework for Node.js
4. the leading open-source MVC framework for Node.js
5. at least pageviews since 2013 830,000 GitHub stars 8,030 over downloads / day 1,500
6. in funding $0
8. est. feb 2012
10. (us) (customer) (Javascript app)
11. love at first sight circa 2011 Node.js...
12. “We’re doing I/O completely wrong.”
13. <— “just look at the Unterschied!” “Not acceptable!”
14. “Threads should be used by experts only.” “Concurrency should be easy.”
15. How is that possible? (copy the browser)
16. // synchronous! console.log(‘hi’) // asynchronous! setTimeout(function (){! console.log(‘hi’);! }, 240000000); vs. incredible
17. could we use …for everything? I wondered…
18. so…
20. You don't want to be writing all these system calls. You need something that gives you… an ORM abstraction, or something.
21. so Sails.js was born
24. Sails is an MVC framework.
25. Sails is an MVC framework.
26. Sails is an MVC framework.
27. Sails is an MVC framework.
28. Sails is an MVC framework.
29. Sails is an MVC framework.
30. Sails is an MVC framework.
31. Sails is an MVC framework.
32. first version (late 2011)
33. December 2012
35. >=20 other community adapters custom app-specific adapters
36. January 2013 first halfway-decent docs http://web.archive.org/web/20130514080123/http://balderdashy.github.io/sails/
37. posted screencast in early 2013
38. …woke up to 1000 views
39. reddit — Feb 2013 hacker news — Mar 2013 and again two months later
41. managed to get sailsjs.org online mid-spring 2013
42. issues pull requests
 questions
46. ????
47. ???????????
48. v0.9 introduced a new streamlined asset pipeline
49. asset pipeline???? “what about gulp?!” “so thirsty…” asset pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!!
50. so v0.10 introduced generators.
51. feature requests are the hydra
52. they will never stop.
53. they will never stop. ever.
54. moral of the story
55. only write code you actually need if someone else actually needs something, they’ll write a pull request only merge new code if someone actually needs you to merge it (i.e. there’s no other way, via a plugin or something)
58. Supporting the Community
59. Tools Metrics Advice
60. #sails on freenode (IRC) issues groups
61. Tools Metrics Advice
62. • Github stars • NPM downloads / day • Google group membership • IRC channel activity • Number of tagged StackOverflow questions
 (and your answer ratio)
63. Tools Metrics Advice
64. inline jsdoc comments are not enough write docs in markdown compile to HTML
65. don’t repeat yourself DRY
66. don’t repeat ourselves DRO the goal of open source
67. make an IRC channel start a Google group post a YouTube video so
68. support !== marketing but remember
69. support !== marketing ( ) but remember
70. far more front-end developers ∃ than back-end developers
71. far more front-end developers ∃ than back-end developers eventually everyday backend development will be commoditized
72. Questions?
73. from rags to open-source @mikermcneil