I've been using SailsJS for a while now and find it a perfect REST API solution. I'm currently building an app for both Web & Mobile (native) so I need the REST part of SailsJS. I want to build a frontend for my API right now, and I found EmberJS which looks like a promising framework. I've a question about combining those two, they both have their own Routing system, and SailsJS seems to overrule Ember's one.
My guesses would be:
The most easy approach looks like building Sails in a subdirectory
eg. /api/ but I think that's not the nicest way to get this fixed.
I could choose one framework for routing and let the other delegating it's routes. For example passing parameters from SailsJS through EmberJS
How can I use those together correctly?
Think of your backand as something you can't control, like a 3rd party API. The reason is that the optimal routing for a user may differ greatly from what's considered to be good API semantics. It's also not easy to share the route declarations, but it's not a good practice anyway.
My advice:
Use ember-cli to build the frontend. It's a great tool, you'll enjoy it a lot.
Build your Sails-based API in a different repository, using the /api namespace for your API endpoints.
Try to follow the JSON API standard as closely as possible. That'll make easier to connect your backend & frontend, as most data libraries (Ember Data for eg.) tries to adhere those standards as well.
Watch Luke Melia's excellent guide on lighning fast deployment. It'll be the same concept for you but in Sails intead of Ruby/Rails.
All in all, I think if you'll have a great dev experience if you do roughly what I've outlined above. Happy coding!
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Can you tell me more about the relationship between the two? I want to (for example) write a little tool which plays audio files on my raspberry pi. Would I then do the player and the players interface completely in React, and then just connect to node in order to get the actual files?
Or, more generally but the same thing, if I would want to write an application that does certain things (writes files, records audio, changes system settings etc.) that would all be done in nodejs, but if I want to have an interface I would use something like React?
I am a bit confused, but I hope this question is valid!
Node and React can be used together.
There is even the MERN stack that helps with that:
MERN is a scaffolding tool which makes it easy to build universal apps using Mongo, Express, React and NodeJS. It minimises the setup time and gets you up to speed using proven technologies.
See: http://mernjs.org/
But you can use React with any other Node framework, not only with Express. React can work with any REST API so whatever you use to build a REST API can be consumed by the frontend written in React.
Some other options include: Hapi, Restify, LoopBack. For more see:
http://nodeframework.com/
from the official React Documentation React is "a JavaScript library for build user interfaces". In very watered down terms (and I mean watered down) React could be thought of as a templating library (please don't shoot me for that).
What I've learned about React is it is more like the "V"iew in MVC. It provides you a way to present the user interface using JavaScript and JSX. With the little I know about from various tutorials, I really like working with React.
Yes, this two thinks can work together, I am currently working at such project. I will point out main think here. That is where you put your routing. Does it goes to Node.js server or to React Router. This is important because it defines where you application logic should be.
ReactTS is a scaffolding engine for React on ASP.NET Core. Very powerful, and very fast - will generate your entire application with a single button click. You can also customize the templates. Check it out here... http://bssdev.biz/DevTools/React-Turbo-Scaffolding-Free-Download
I have been searching all over for a tutorial that could make a RESTFul API without using any frontend javascript to no avail. I am very new to Javascript/ web-development and have been doing many tutorials and mini projects to get myself acquainted with it.
This is a test for a job at a startup as they looking for an entry level developer. Their requirements are much different as they want me to use their in house build APIs.
What I am looking for is some help on how to get started building a RESTful API using node.js, express, Mongo and without using any frontend javascript. Thanks.
Recommendations for tutorials usually don't make good questions for Stack Overflow, but you might want to take a look at the following books. They helped me out quite a bit when getting started with Node:
Express Web Application Development
Advanced Express Web Application Development
RESTful Web API Design with Node.js
As others have commented, a REpresentational State Transfer API is implemented server-side. You could consume such an API from the client-side using JavaScript, but not build one on the client-side.
Express is a very popular web framework for Node, and you can certainly use it to build APIs, but you might also take a look at Restify. Hope that helps you out.
After years of PHP/MySQL development on the server-side, I'm trying to explore new technologies for building modern web applications.
I'm trying to make an order between all the JavaScript stuff and, if I have understood well, a valid solution can be node.js on the server-side, express.js to handle routing and, for example, ember.js and/or knockout.js to handle client-side with MVC/MVVM, binding, observers. Is it a valid architecture?
I built a pretty straightfoward website at the following github location
https://github.com/bwship/neptunejs
It uses node for the server side and ember for the clientside. It is also using Parse.com for it's data and api layer. But, the general idea should all be layed out for you there, including what I feel is a pretty solid folder and file structure.
Let me know if you have any questions. I came from an ASP.NET background, and have just completely fallen in love with client-side MVC.
I am new to node. I very much like approach of AngularJS. I like what I see in towerjs.
Has Anyone wired the two together? I have in mind tower primarily for backend api/rest and angular for clientside.
I'm especially not familiar with tower.js, but from the docs it looks like it might not be practical to use the two together. There is quite a bit of overlap in the things AngularJS provides and the things tower.js provides (especially models, views, and controllers on the client).
I've written on how to use AngularJS with a RESTful API provided by Express on my blog. Maybe that can help you get started.
Good luck! :)
Tower is for the server-side while angular is on the client right?
So what you could try what is mentioned here. Just replace railway with tower.
You could check this brunch.io skelleton that uses angularjs.
Hope this comes in handy mate!
As things are evolving very fast, there are some major update.
For example, a framework named Total.js has made much work to make Angular.js work in hand with Node.js.
Please have a look at their web site http://www.totaljs.com/totalstack/ and at the 6 (!) example they provide on how to use it : https://github.com/totaljs/examples.
Pretty amazing! Hope that helps!
Note: I have no affiliation with Total.js at all.
I'm new into Node.js and my intention is to build a web site similar (but way less complex) than Imgur, where uploading images is possible by dragging photos from desktop to the browser.
For this I want to use Node.js and MongoDB.
I have been looking around everywhere and found a lots of tutorials (many of them out dated) for setting up a database, but none for file uploading. Node.js and all it's modules is like a jungle, and it really isn't easy to know which modules to use in which type of context.
So, what I really could use here is some help with suggestions of tutorials and/or modules that may fit for this purpose. What is the easiest and best way to get started with this?
This is a school project that I need to do (I selected Node.js for server side myself, not knowing how complex it really is and now it's to late to change), so I would really appreciate your help here.
Thanks in advance!
You can get away without using most of the node.js modules aside from the mongodb driver. Express is a popular framework for web applications, but it might even be overkill here. Really, you just need to serve some HTML with the drag and drop code, and then be able to receive and serve images. It's probably less than 50 lines of code in actual node.js, plus whatever frontend code you have.
Check out this tutorial for the image upload portion on the node.js side using express:
https://github.com/visionmedia/express/blob/master/examples/multipart/app.js
Here's a tutorial for the frontend drag and drop functionality:
http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/html5-drag-and-drop-and-file-api-tutorial/
Update You might also consider http://mongoosejs.com/, which makes mongodb interaction a bit easier--but the native driver isn't too bad to use by itself.