Node.js – real time web apps with Drupal

My talk from DrupalCamp Copenhagen.

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1. Node.js
   Real-time web apps with Drupal
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2. Drupal’s characteristics
   • Content management framework
   • Flexible/extensible
   • Powerful, point and click configurability
   • Shared nothing/stateless
   • Database heavy
   • Slow :(
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3. Node.js’ characteristics
   • Low-level toolset
   • Asynchronous
   • Stateful
   • Fast
   • Real-time interaction
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4. Drupal is for web pages
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5. Node.js is for network services
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6. Strong community similarities
   • Drupal was created in 2001 by Dries
   Buytaert because he need a system
   for social communication
   • Thousands of developers on the
   core system
   • By developers, for developers
   • Active contrib community: 8.500+
   modules available on drupal.org
   • Node.js was created in 2009 by
   Ryan Dahl because he needed a tool
   for creating network services
   • Thousands of developers on the
   core system
   • By developers, for developers
   • Active contrib community: 4.000+
   packages available on NPM
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7. • Do things that was not possible before without learning
   $obscure_language or $weird_platform;
   • JavaScript everywhere
   • Speed is the new black
   • Web applications need responsive and stateful backends
   Why is Node.js so popular?
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8. What is built with Node.js?
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9. Etherpad Lite
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10. Chat
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11. Maps
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12. All sorts of crazy stuff
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13. Node.js and Drupal
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14. Drupal on top
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15. Node.js as a message bus
    (yawn)
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16. Send messages from Drupal
    code
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17. Node.js on top
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18. (parts of)
    Drupal’s API in Node.js
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19. Demo
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20. JavaScript all the way down
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