Talk: Experimental 'backend optional' web framework

[David Kendal]

Hi,

I'm working on an experimental 'backend optional' web framework, and I'd like to talk about what I'm doing at BerlinJS! Would anyone be interested in a talk on this?:

The idea is that you can run the app in any of three ways: you can just serve static files and run the whole thing on the client (with offline support with cache.manifest etc.); or you can have a backend that serves it to people who don't have JS enabled, but with the app all loaded in the client for faster and flashier interactivity in the browser; or you can just run it just like a traditional web app — but you can (hopefully) do it all in the same codebase, and just switch between them as suits you. It's very much inspired by e.g. Hoodie, but takes a different (and more futuristic) approach.

This is very much a research project, since to my knowledge nobody's ever made a web framework like this before. I have a working prototype, but there's much still to do. I'm looking for collaborators and input at a fairly early stage, and BerlinJS seems like a good place to find them! (N.B. My talk will require some knowledge of CouchDB.)

Thanks, looking forward to coming,

dpk

[Jan Lehnardt]

ZOMG YES PLEASE :D

Can you add a pull request to https://github.com/berlinjs/berlinjs.org

Best
Jan
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PS: I won’t be able to attend this month, if you want my feedback, we’d have to meet outside of this :)

[Jürgen Walter]

Sounds great!! Related, but not the same: https://unhosted.org/ and http://remotestorage.io/integrate/

[Adrian Lang]

Hi list,

On 05.05.2014 17:14, David Kendal wrote:
> I'm working on an experimental 'backend optional' web framework, and
> I'd like to talk about what I'm doing at BerlinJS! Would anyone be
> interested in a talk on this?:

I'm working on something which seems to have similar goals and maybe
even a similar implementation. I'd like to present that, too, if there's
still room for a (short) talk.

Regards,
Adrian

[Robin Mehner]

Hey Adrian,

I just opened up a slot, if it's a short talk it will perfectly fit. Just open up a pull request to https://github.com/berlinjs/berlinjs.org and we're set.

Thank you!