Description of the Joshfire Factory, its architecture and how we used NodeJS in a production environment.

1. Using Node.js in production
on the Joshfire Factory
@Steren
Paris JS
2012-04-16

2. we're hiring!
http://factory.joshfire.com

10. Why
Share code between client & server
Same language, same libs: JS expertise

11. Architecture

13. Factory
Single page web-app using
REST API
Express JS
use middlewares for pagination, filters, private beta...
Mongoose - EveryAuth - LESS

14. Data
called by generated apps and app builer
proxy server for online datasource
cache, data-enrichment, normalization
data-source code may be used
client side or server side.
server side HTML parsing
can return code client-side usable code
requiredJS, almond

15. Production

16. Tests
jasmine + Jenkins

17. staging / production
same environments
final tests on staging
1 week release cycle

18. Hosting
$ git push heroku prod:master

19. we're hiring!
http://factory.joshfire.com