Developing Backbone.js Applications on OpenShift

Developing Backbone.js Applications on OpenShift

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1. 1 Developing Single Page Web Applications with Backbone.js, MongoDB and OpenShift Shekhar Gulati @shekhargulati OpenShift Evangelist, Red Hat
2. 2 About Me ➢ OpenShift Developer Evangelist at Red Hat ➢ Hands-on Developer ➢ Active blogger, speaker, and writer ➢ Twitter Handle : shekhargulati
3. 3 Agenda • Introducing backbone.js • Developing backbone.js application • Introducing OpenShift • Writing server side code • Deploying application on OpenShift
5. 5 Backbone.js ➔ Lightweight JavaScript library ~ 6.3kb ➔ Brings structure to your application ➔ Brings MVC on client side – model, view, collections, router ➔ One hard dependency underscore.js ➔ For RESTful persistence and DOM manipulation , include json2.js, and either jQuery ( >= 1.7.0) or Zepto. ➔ Used by LinkedIn, Foursquare, WunderKit, Groupon,etc. More at http://backbonejs.org/#examples
6. 6 Why backbone.js? ➔ Lightweight library not a framework, and does not have any opinions. ➔ Provides helpful methods to manipulate and query your data. ➔ Backbone does not force you to use a single template engine. ➔ Scales well eg. disqus widget and usatoday.com ➔ Works well with other libraries Get more information at http://backbonejs.org/#FAQ-why-backbone
7. 7 Backbone.js Architecture Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.
8. 8 Backbone.js Application Components ➔ Model ➔ Collection ➔ View ➔ Templates ➔ Router
9. 9 Model ✔ Data holder – contains an array of attributes ✔ Core of Backbone.js ✔ Handles persistence ✔ Listen for events Look at model.html Book = Backbone.Model.extend({ defaults : { title : 'Effective Java', author : 'Joshua Bloch' }, initialize : function(){ console.log(' In initialize()....'); this.on('change',function(){ console.log('Something changed...'); }); } });
10. 10 Collection ✔ A list of models ✔ Add, push, pop etc. ✔ Built on underscore.js Look at collection.html Books = Backbone.Collection.extend({ localStorage : new Store('books-collection'), model : Book }) var books = new Books(); books.push(new Book());
11. 11 Views ✔ Views displays model ✔ Views are not HTML ✔ HTML comes from templates. ✔ Works with any template library ✔ Manipulates a DOM ✔ Has a Model / Collection look at view.html BooksView = Backbone.View.extend({ el : $('#main'), initialize : function(){ this.books = new Books(); this.books.on('all',this.render,this); this.books.fetch(); }, render : function(){ this.$el.html(this.template(this)); return this; } });
12. 12 Router ✔ Maps URLs to functions ✔ Enable history and bookmarking ✔ Starting point of application Router = Backbone.Router.extend( routes : { "" : "index", }, index : function(){ console.log('in index()....'); var booksView = new BooksView(); this.el.empty(); this.el.append(booksView.render().el); }}); var router = new Router({el : $($('#main'))}); Backbone.history.start();
13. 13 Demo 1 : Developing backbone.js application Code walkthrough
14. 14 Cloud Service Models STORAGE (RHS) HARDWARE (x86, Power, S/390) VIRTUALIZATION (RHEV) OPERATING SYSTEM (RHEL) APPLICATION PLATFORM (JBOSS, PHP, RUBY, ETC) APPLICATION Automated and Managed by the Public or Private Cloud Offering Managed and Controlled by Customer (IT, Dev, or User) IaaS PaaS SaaS Increased Control Increased Automation
15. 15 What is PaaS?
16. 16 PaaS = Platform as a Service A Cloud Application Platform Code Deploy Enjoy Save Time and Money Code your app Push-button Deploy, and your App is running in the Cloud!
18. 18 Why PaaS?  Lets developer focus on his job i.e. to write code.  You develop “Cloud Aware” applications from the beginning.  Improves developer productivity.  Reduces cost and time to market.  Brings agility to product development.  Gives developers the power to prototype their ideas rapidly.
19. 19 OpenShift is PaaS by Red Hat Multi-language, Auto-Scaling, Self-service, Elastic, Cloud Application Platform
20. 20 Developers Choose How To Work with OpenShift Developer IDE Integrations Web Browser Console Command Line Tooling REST APIs
21. 21 What else do I get and what is the catch?  OpenShift is free-as-in-beer & free-as-in-freedom  You get three free gears, each with 512MB memory and 1GB of disk space.  Need more resources, just ask!  The catch is we are in developer preview right now
22. 22 1. Developing Bookshop application https://bookshop-cix.rhcloud.com/ Note : The promo code is DELHI.FEB Demo
23. 23 Some terminology for today 1. Application – your web code and any data store. Has to be on 1 or more gears 2. Gear – is like a server. It can have only 1 language for the web programming. 3. Cartridge – it adds a language, a data store, or other functionality 4. Git – used for version control and managing code between server and your development machine 5. Ssh – command line tool to connect to your gear
24. 24 Let's get our hands dirty
25. 25 Create OpenShift Account https://openshift.redhat.com/app/account/new Promo code is DELHI
26. 26 Installing Client Tools Install Ruby 1.8.7 or greater Install Git Install rhc OpenShift gem Refer to documentation
27. 27 Setup your OpenShift Environment rhc setup -l <openshift_login> -> ask for namespace -> ask to upload ssh keys
28. 28 Creating an OpenShift Application rhc app create bookshop tomcat-7 mongodb-2.2
29. 29 Look at the generated code
30. 30 Application Deployments Options OpenShift supports two types of deployment options 1) Source code deployment 2) Binary deployment – war,ear
31. 31 Play with MongoDB running in the Cloud ssh into instance Type mongo on the shell Create a sample db Insert some documents in the collection Run some queries
32. 32 Pulling the code from GitHub git rm -rf src/ pom.xml git commit -am "removed default files" git remote add upstream -m master git://github.com/shekhargulati/bookshop-bootcamp- rest-quickstart.git git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master
33. 33 Code Walkthrough
34. 34 git push Deploy the code to OpenShift
35. 35 1. OpenShift makes life great for you 2. The tools are easy to use 3. You should be ready to write services 4. Almost anything you need on a server 5. Did I mention – Free 6. Source code https://github.com/shekhargulati/bookshop-bootcamp- rest-quickstart Conclusion