Thank you very much everybody for your notes! @Martin I tried to have a fast look at YUI. What gives YUI the ability to run client code on the server? I mean what makes it different from other Javascript "MVC" frameworks such as Backbone.js?
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Martin Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Amjad <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everybody! > > > > I'm new to the great world of Node.js and have been playing around with > > different modules and frameworks. However, there seems a lot of methods > for > > sharing server code with the client, and there are no default way for > doing > > that. > > That's in part because it rather depends on what you're trying to do. > For example, you might be: > > * trying to take existing code written for Node and run it in the browser > * trying to take existing code written for the browser and run it in Node > * trying to write a new codebase that will run in both places > > As has been mentioned, browserify is probably the best solution for > the first of these. I think it's safe to say that it garners the most > attention, in part because it's good at what it does. > > For the last case, you might want to take a look at YUI, which > provides the abstractions to let you write your code once and run it > in both places. Yahoo! has built Mojito on top of YUI and is using > that to create multi-device apps that transparently share code between > client and server. (BTW, you'll likely find that YUI is much more > lightweight and modular than you think.) > > -- > Martin Cooper > > > > I have come across many ideas: > > > > express-expose: this is a nice replacement for parsing JSON objects > rendered > > by the the server. > > https://github.com/visionmedia/express-expose > > > > This article exposes a hack to share backbone models on the Node server, > and > > they are trying to neat their hack with their Capsule and Thoonk > frameworks: > > > http://andyet.net/blog/2011/feb/15/re-using-backbonejs-models-on-the-server-with-node/ > > > > Syncrhonizing Backbone model using socket.io > > https://github.com/scttnlsn/backbone.io > > > > DNode and RPC as a method to use server methods on the client and vice > versa > > https://github.com/substack/dnode > > > > I know I've mixed a lot of topics, I thought sharing my confusion would > help > > to get more clarification, especially that there are a lot of production > > projects based on Node, andI think that the community certainly have > reached > > a good collection of concepts and tools for sharing code between the > server > > and client. I would be very grateful for sharing your thoughts about > that. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Amjad > > > > > > -- > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
