This is a slide presentation about Web Application development using Wakanda in pure JavaScript. This presentation happened at JSConf Argentina on May 19, 2012. For additional resources, please visit http://wakanda.org and http://jsconf.com.ar
We are going to talk about a integrated, full-stack JavaScript development approach for Web Applications.
In software projects, we have to deliver on time and on budget. Like in a Rugby match you want to “touch-down” to score we want to deliver a great product. We work in agile teams, of programmers, designers, clients, the open source community and 3 rd parties to deliver. There are tons of challenges on the way to cross the line: the right tools, customer requirements, bugs, deadlines, etc.
In this presentation we want to focus on Web Applications. Web Applications are complex.
This is where all Web Applications will need to run on: connected mobile devices. Most of all apps written will run on mobile devices, smart phones or large touch-screen devices, like the iPad. They are run on either the (mobile) browsers or acquired through the manufacturers’ “Store” ecosystem.
Web Applications should be developed in such way, that without a lot of work, they can easily be modified to run on several devices. Today, there are more than 3997 distinct Android products available, which creates a huge device fragmentation. Fragmentation also happening in the iOS world, i.e. different screen resolutions (Retina vs. no retina display).
There are over 640 programming languages out there today, only an handful really make sense for Web Application programming.
Reasonably there are only be a handful of languages, frameworks, database servers that one considers for Web Applications.
The combination dependencies: languages, tools, frameworks, infrastructure create a “house of cards” situation, with so many dependencies to manage that apps do become unstable, when new versions of a apps are deployed or new app component are published, when we have to switch from different database systems, MySQL to PostgresQL in a live system, do an npm install which fails on a newer version of nodejs, etc.
So most of the times you require an entire team of experts (rocket scientists) like these. They develop, configure run and maintain a Web Application.
We want to empower the every day programmer to create Web Applications, using their existing HTML and JavaScript skills!
Wakanda is an full-stack JavaScript development and deployment system. It is open-source and hosted on Github. Check it out, or download an installable version on http://wakanda.org
Wakanda is for data centric, Web Applications
It is cross-platform, available on Mac, Windows, and Linux today.
It uses the latest HTML5 and JavaScript standards.
Wakanda is a full-stack JavaScript development and deployment system.
It is comprised of: Wakanda Server Data/HTTP Server JavaScript Environment NoSQL Object Datastore Wakanda Application Framework Automatically loaded Model proxy No plug-in, no proprietary code Wakanda Studio Data Model Designer Code Editor WYSIWYG GUI Designer Debugger Application configuration
Let’s show you how to build a simple data centric Web Application with Wakanda today.
Thank you very much. Please visit us on wakanda.org, participate on our forum at forum.wakanda.org and follow us on @wakandasoft