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A Tale of Two Frameworks Chang Sau Sheong @sausheong

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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …”

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How web frameworks work

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Server Client Request Response Header Body Header Body HTTP methods: GET, POST etc Status codes: 200, 404 etc

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Parts of a server-side web framework

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Models

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Routes

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Views

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Assets

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Minimalist Sinatra + Haml + Sequel + Postgres

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Alternative Cuba + Mustache + Mongoid + MongoDB

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Minimalist

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Least effort

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Code for humans

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Principle of Good Enough

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Sinatra

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“Domain specific language for quickly creating web applications.”

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*HTML abstraction markup language

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“Markup should be beautiful.”

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%section.container %h1= post.title %h2= post.subtitle .content = post.content

<%= post.title %>

<%= post.subtitle %>

<%= post.content %>

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“Ruby object relational mapper.”

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Migrate (Create the database tables)

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Model

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Alternative

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Cuba

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“Ruby microframework for web development.”

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Hierarchical routes

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Focus on matching

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{ Mustache

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“Logic-less templates.”

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There are only tags.

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“Document database with JSON- styled documents.”

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Mongoid

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“Ruby object document mapper for MongoDB.”

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https://github.com/sausheong/server-frameworks

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Questions?