Sessions at JSConf EU 2009 about CommonJS

Sunday 8th November 2009

• Wakanda: a new end-to-end JavaScript platform (SquirrelFish), with remote JS debugging, JS/REST database

  by Alexandre Morgaut and Jean-Michel Biraghi

  Wakanda is an exciting project including a server, a studio, and some useful Web tools. It helps you creating web apps that integrate nicely with a backend and a native REST and JavaScript database. It makes REST and Entity Model, a very intuitive way to build applications. We'll see a quick but detailed rundown about its architecture: its database engine, SquirrelFish, a data provider, Ajax framework adapters (YUI, ExtJS, jQuery, ...), and a full development environment. I'll expose part of its client and server-side APIs (JSON-RPC, data services), and some innovating features like JavaScript remote debugging, or unit testing on JavaScript and HTTP using Wakanda Studio and Firefox extensions.

  • CommonJS
  • JavaScript
  • REST
  • SSJS
  • Wakanda

  At 4:15pm to 5:00pm, Sunday 8th November

  Coverage slide deck video

Unscheduled

• CommonJS

  by Kris Kowal

  http://jsconf.eu/2009/speaker/ja...

  JavaScript is an enormously popular programming language, because of its unique place as the programming language of the web. Outside of that domain, JS is barely a blip compared to other dynamic languages like Python and Ruby. Outside of the browser, JavaScript is lacking something critical: a significant standard library.

  Thanks to a powerful standard library and a common module system, sophisticated applications can be written in Python and run unchanged on Windows, Mac and Linux and even across different interpreters including Jython and IronPython.

  The CommonJS project (formerly ServerJS) is building up a standard library API to give privileged JavaScript applications this same kind of interop. Imagine a server-side webapp that runs equally well in Rhino, SpiderMonkey and v8. We're getting there. Even better, those apps can easily share modules between the browser and the server, which is something you don't get in other languages.

  In this talk, I'll provide quick background on the project and demos of several implementations of the emerging standard, including how CommonJS impacts Mozilla's Jetpack and Bespin projects.

  • CommonJS
  • JavaScript

• Narwhal: a cross-platform, multi-interpreter, general purpose JavaScript platform

  by Kris Kowal and tom robinson

  Tom Robinson and Kris Kowal present Narwhal, an early implementation of the emerging CommonJS standard.

  They will discuss the motivation and design goals behind Narwhal, and it's relationship to CommonJS. Topics covered include Narwhal's multiple JavaScript engine support, shell scripting, web applications, packages, package management, virtual environments, and select standard library modules.

  • CommonJS
  • JavaScript