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Sau Sheong Chang
February 19, 2014
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A Tale of Two Frameworks
https://github.com/sausheong/server-frameworks
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February 19, 2014
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Transcript
A Tale of Two Frameworks Chang Sau Sheong @sausheong
“It was the best of times, it was the worst
of times …”
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How web frameworks work
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
Models
Routes
Views
Assets
Minimalist Sinatra + Haml + Sequel + Postgres
Alternative Cuba + Mustache + Mongoid + MongoDB
Minimalist
Least effort
Code for humans
Principle of Good Enough
Sinatra
“Domain specific language for quickly creating web applications.”
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*HTML abstraction markup language
“Markup should be beautiful.”
%section.container %h1= post.title %h2= post.subtitle .content = post.content <section class=”container”>
<h1><%= post.title %></h1> <h2><%= post.subtitle %></h2> <div class=”content”> <%= post.content %> </div> </section>
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None
“Ruby object relational mapper.”
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Migrate (Create the database tables)
Model
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Alternative
Cuba
“Ruby microframework for web development.”
Hierarchical routes
Focus on matching
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{ Mustache
“Logic-less templates.”
There are only tags.
None
None
“Document database with JSON- styled documents.”
Mongoid
“Ruby object document mapper for MongoDB.”
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https://github.com/sausheong/server-frameworks
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