With the increasing popularity of Universal JavaScript and microservices, more and more front-end developers are taking ownership of their server-side render using Node.js. In this talk we'll see how leveraging APIs in both server and client side is giving birth to new libraries and frameworks and what is the role of a front end developer in this post-full stack world. Demo: https://github.com/ruyadorno/react-ssr-fsto-2017-demo

1. Node.js
server side render
in the Age of APIs
Full Stack Toronto - 2017

2. Ruy Adorno
@ruyadorno
http://ruyadorno.com

3. A little bit of history...

4. Monolithic Apps
• Apache web server
• PHP
• MySQL

5. Microservices
• Modularization
• Decentralized
• Flexibility

6. Front end should
also benefit from it

7. Now let's take a
look at the current
state of the art

8. Web APIs
• REST APIs
• GraphQL

9. Single Page Apps
• Client-side logic
• Ajax

10. Static sites
Nothing can beat
serving static files

11. JamStack
• Static HTML Pages
• Client-side logic (SPA)
• APIs

12. What if we bring
microservices
into the mix?

14. • Event-driven runtime
• Google V8 + event loop
• Universal JavaScript

15. Universal JavaScript
microservice
• Node.js microservice
• Fetches data from APIs
• Leverages Universal JS
• Renders markup + data

16. Developer Experience
• Modern JS environment
• Mocked APIs
• Hot reload ❤

17. Demo time
https://github.com/ruyadorno/react-ssr-fsto-2017-demo

18. Frameworks / libs
• Next.js
• react-server
• Electrode
• Razzle

19. Conclusions

20. That's it
http://ruyadorno.com

21. Resources
• https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html
• https://nodejs.org/en/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node.js
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_API
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-page_application
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)
• https://jamstack.org/
• https://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html
• https://github.com/zeit/next.js
• https://react-server.io/
• http://www.electrode.io/
• https://github.com/jaredpalmer/razzle

22. Photo credits
• Photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/X1exjxxBho4
• Photo by Dennis Kummer on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/52gEprMkp7M
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• Photo by Janko Ferlic on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/sfL_QOnmy00
• Photo by Matt Briney on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/kkwVdhkJPfw
• Photo by Justin Lawrence on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/Q3Ag52FRGC8
• Photo by Jonathan Pielmayer on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/c69HK1HKHYs
• Photo by Edouard Ki on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/xcrI6CPkkJs
• Photo by Dean Johns on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/ls6DOZ--4p4
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• Photo by David Di Veroli on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/-m1duEoiJng
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• Photo by rawpixel.com on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/C05KN4h8WKw
• Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/1_CMoFsPfso
• Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash, http://unsplash.com/photos/Oaqk7qqNh_c