Node Dublin 2012

1. Building a Desktop
for the Cloud
Node Dublin 2012
Romain Huet Co-Founder & CTO of Jolicloud @romainhuet

2. The cloud radically changed
computing in every possible way.

3. The cloud radically changed
computing in every possible way.
How to reinvent the operating
system for people who live in
the cloud?

4. How to reinvent the operating
system for people who live in
the cloud?

5. First Node Meetup in Paris, 2011

6. Node has been instrumental
in achieving our vision

7. Jolicloud’s three core components

8. Jolicloud Start Page
A desktop built with
JavaScript & HTML5

9. Single page application using
Backbone and HTML5 APIs
Local Storage CSS3 Canvas Video Audio

10. Node as part of our front-end
deployment build tools with Grunt
JS linting, CSS minifying…
Produce Retina assets
Inline small images in CSS
Generate AppCache Manifests

11. Joli OS
Controlling the hardware and
leveraging local resources

12. How Joli OS works

13. JavaScript API on top of WebSocket
Bidirectional and real-time communication with the computer.
Send commands:
jolios.shutdown();
Receive events:
jolios.addEventListener('deviceAdded', function(device) {
// Display the device and start interacting with it.
});
Demo

14. Jolicloud Platform
Bringing the clouds together

15. Architecture of our platform
Full Node Stack

16. SoundCloud Integration with Jolicloud
Jolicloud SoundCloud
Node Module API
Demo

17. Opening the Jolicloud platform
to Node developers

18. Thank you!
@romainhuet
Node Dublin – October 18th, 2012