Node.js server side render in the Age of APIs - DevTeach Montreal 2017

With the increasing popularity of Universal JavaScript and microservices, more and more front-end developers are taking ownership of their server-side render using Node.js.
In this talk we'll see how leveraging APIs in both server and client side is giving birth to new libraries and frameworks and what is the role of a front end developer in this post-full stack world.

Demo: https://github.com/ruyadorno/nextjs-api-fetch-example

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1. Node.js server side render in the Age of APIs Dev Teach - Montreal 2017
2. Ruy Adorno @ruyadorno http://ruyadorno.com ! "
3. A little bit of history...
4. Monolithic Apps • Apache web server • PHP • MySQL
5. Microservices • Modularization • Decentralized • Flexibility
6. Front end should also benefit from it
7. Now let's take a look at the current state of the art
8. Web APIs • REST APIs • GraphQL
9. Single Page Apps • Client-side logic • Ajax
10. Static sites Nothing can beat serving static files
11. JamStack • Static HTML Pages • Client-side logic (SPA) • APIs
12. What if we bring microservices into the mix?
14. • Event-driven runtime • Google V8 + event loop • Universal JavaScript
15. Universal JavaScript microservice • Node.js microservice • Fetches data from APIs • Leverages Universal JS • Renders markup + data
16. Developer Experience • Modern JS environment • Mocked APIs • Hot reload ❤
17. Demo time https://github.com/ruyadorno/nextjs-api-fetch-example
18. Frameworks / libs • Next.js • react-server • Electrode • Razzle
19. Conclusions
20. That's it http://ruyadorno.com ! "
21. Resources • https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html • https://nodejs.org/en/ • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node.js • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_API • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-page_application • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming) • https://jamstack.org/ • https://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html • https://github.com/zeit/next.js • https://react-server.io/ • http://www.electrode.io/ • https://github.com/jaredpalmer/razzle
22. Photo credits • Photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/X1exjxxBho4 • Photo by Dennis Kummer on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/52gEprMkp7M • Photo by chuttersnap on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/kyCNGGKCvyw • Photo by Israel Sundseth on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/BYu8ITUWMfc • Photo by Janko Ferlic on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/sfL_QOnmy00 • Photo by Matt Briney on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/kkwVdhkJPfw • Photo by Justin Lawrence on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/Q3Ag52FRGC8 • Photo by Jonathan Pielmayer on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/c69HK1HKHYs • Photo by Edouard Ki on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/xcrI6CPkkJs • Photo by Dean Johns on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/ls6DOZ--4p4 • Photo by Quino Al on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/vBxlL1xpSdc • Photo by David Di Veroli on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/-m1duEoiJng • Photo by Miles Storey on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/X45VKpWV7hw • Photo by rawpixel.com on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/C05KN4h8WKw • Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/1_CMoFsPfso • Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/Oaqk7qqNh_c