🏗️ Platformatic

AlmeríaJS, 2022-12-28

https://slides.com/alexfernandez/platformatic-2022-12-28/

📋 What We Will See

🤔 What Is Platformatic?

🔧 How Can We Tinker with It?

⚠️ What Is It Not Good for?

🔮 What Will the Future Bring?

🎅 Your Host Tonight

👴 Old JavaScript developer (AlmeriaJS dixit)

🏚️ 20+ years of experience

🏦 10+ years at banks and telcos

🦄 10+ years at startups

🐘 @pinchito@mastodon.social

👨‍💼 What Do You Do in Life?

🦄 Founded a company in mid-2022

🇩🇪 With two German partners

🛢️ Vertical SaaS for chemical traders

💰 Looking for financing

🥁 Fullstack CTO

🤔 What Is Platformatic?

Source : IABI

🏗️ The Node.js #nocode backend

👴 Create a backend in 30 minutes

💡 Supports roles and authentication

💰 First component: automatic DB serving

🤑 Exposes GraphQL and OpenAPI interfaces

📜 History

🍼 Founded by Matteo Collina and Luca Maraschi

🏺 Started on July 2022

🐣 First version in September 2022

📦 Version 0.12.0 released on December 23

📢 Open source: https://oss.platformatic.dev/

🤌 Matteo Collina

🔝 Member of Node.js Technical Committee

🇮🇹 Italian, studied at Bologna

💡 Consultant at NearForm

🗣️ Frequent JS speaker

🤗 Great guy all around

⚡ Based on Fastify

🚄 Inspired by / replacement for Express

📚 Very well documented

🔌 Lots of plugins

⚡ Super fast

🔧 How Can We Tinker?

Source: OakleyOriginals

🔨 Demo Time!

Source: Jernej Furman

👨‍💼 My Role in this Story?

🤗 Admirer and (hopefully) friend of Matteo

🔎 I was looking for a backend...

🏗️ And Platformatic was right there!

🤽 Ideal playground

👨‍💼 How to Interact with the Team?

👴 Create an issue

💡 They are really responsive!

🎁 Salient Features

🔐 Authentication

🎭 Supports different roles

🔌 A Fastify plugin to add features

🦾 Automated OpenAPI interface

🧰 Can add WHERE and JOIN clauses

⚠️ What Is It Not Good for?

Source: Pedro Ribeiro Simões

👔 Ntrde Prototype Requirements

🏚️ Old PHP backend

🏗️ Public and organization-specific items

⚔️ Strict account separation

🔐 Fine-grained access controls

😅 Do You Still Use Platformatic?

🔧 Custom Node.js backend

🛡️ Really simple code

🦮 Platformatic helped a lot in the transition

🏗️ Current Backend

backend-mvp$ cloc --exclude-dir node_modules .
      74 text files.
      69 unique files.                              
       9 files ignored.

github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.90  T=0.05 s (1357.9 files/s, 340266.7 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language                     files          blank        comment           code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
JSON                            10              0              0          11161
JavaScript                      30            268            118           2577
SQL                             20             57              5           2177
Markdown                         1             37              0             50
Dockerfile                       1             11              8             26
YAML                             1              3              2             18
Bourne Shell                     3              7              5              8
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM:                            66            383            138          16017
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backend-mvp$ wc package-lock.json 
 11103  19914 391714 package-lock.json

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