Node 6 and Running Node on Docker

May 2016 JaxNode

Brief History

  • Node 4 and 5 released end of last year
  • 4 was the LTS version
  • 5 the experimental version
  • Node 6 released, will become a LTS release

ES2015 Features in Node 4

Let and Const

Iterators and Generators

Arrow => functions

Reflection

New literals

Template Strings

Classes

Lexical Scoping

Maps, Set, WeakMap

ArrayBuffer

Promises

Octal support

Node v5.0

  • V8 engine 4.6
  • Includes ...spread operator
  • adds new.target property

Node 6

  • 93% ES2015 compatible
  • import/export syntax not supported
  • 4 times faster than Node 4
  • V8 version 5.0.71.35
  • Node 7 will become experimental version

Buffer Improvements

  • No longer set Stream to null
  • Functional changes to Buffer class
  • use Buffer.from(Array) instead of new Buffer(array) or new Buffer(buffer)
  • start node with --zero-fill-buffers to enforce new Buffer(size), Buffer.allocUnsafe(size), Buffer.allocUnsafeSlow(size) or new SlowBuffer(size)

Improved Random

var ALPHABET = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_';

let random_base64 = function random_base64(length) {
    var str = "";
    for (var i=0; i < length; ++i) {
        var rand = Math.floor(Math.random() * ALPHABET.length);
        str += ALPHABET.substring(rand, rand+1);
    }
    return str;
}

Default parameters


function add(a, b = 0) {
	return a + b;
}

console.log(add(4)); // results 4

Rest parameters


const myAnimals = ['dog', 'cat', 'platipus'];

function listAnimalsES2015(...animals) {
  animals.forEach(function(animal) {
    console.log(animal);
  });
}

listAnimalsES2015(myAnimals);

// returns 
// dog
// cat 
// platipus

Spread Operator

var parts = ['shoulders', 'knees'];
var lyrics = ['head', ...parts, 'and', 'toes']; 
// ["head", "shoulders", "knees", "and", "toes"]

Destructuring

var foo = ["one", "two", "three"];

var [one, two, three] = foo;
console.log(one); // "one"
console.log(two); // "two"
console.log(three); // "three"

const elGatos = ['stan', 'tom', 'bebe', 'alf'];
const [cat1, cat2, ...restOfGatos] = elGatos;
console.log(cat1); // "one"
console.log(cat2); // "two"
console.log(restOfGatos); // "three"

new.target

function Foo() {
  if (!new.target) throw "Foo() must be called with new";
  console.log("Foo instantiated with new");
}

Foo(); // throws "Foo() must be called with new"
new Foo(); // logs "Foo instantiated with new"

Reflect

var O = {a: 1};
Object.defineProperty(O, 'b', {value: 2});
O[Symbol('c')] = 3;

Reflect.ownKeys(O); // ['a', 'b', Symbol(c)]

function C(a, b){
  this.c = a + b;
}
var instance = Reflect.construct(C, [20, 22]);
instance.c; // 42

Proxies

var handler = {
    get: function(target, name){
        return name in target?
            target[name] :
            37;
    }
};

var p = new Proxy({}, handler);
p.a = 1;
p.b = undefined;

console.log(p.a, p.b); // 1, undefined
console.log('c' in p, p.c); // false, 37

Proxy Traps

  • get
  • set
  • deleteProperty
  • enumerate
  • ownKeys
  • has
  • defineProperty
  • getOwnPropertyDescriptor

Symbols

var sym1 = Symbol();
var sym2 = Symbol("foo");
var sym3 = Symbol("foo");

Symbol("foo") === Symbol("foo"); // false

var obj = {};

obj[Symbol("a")] = "a";
obj[Symbol.for("b")] = "b";
obj["c"] = "c";
obj.d = "d";

for (var i in obj) {
   console.log(i); // logs "c" and "d"
}

Docker

  • Follow up to Shawn Hubbards presentation
  • What are Containers?
  • New Docker Beta
  • Docker Commands

Docker Facts

  • Project started out dotCloud
  • Written in Go
  • Using Linux Isolation features of namespaces and cgroups 
  • Offer services like Docker Hub and Docker Cloud
  • Windows 2016 Server is adding Docker

Docker Beta

  • Uses hyper-V on Windows
  • Use xhyve on Mac OS X
  • Remove need for Oracle VirtualBox
  • Containers coming to Windows 2016

Docker terms

  • Docker Engine
  • Docker Machine
  • Docker Compose
  • Docker Swarm
  • Docker Hub
  • Docker Cloud

Common Docker Commands

  • docker build
  • docker run
  • docker run -i -t
  • docker run -d
  • docker attach
  • docker ps
  • docker ps -a
  • docker commit

Docker-Machine

  • docker-machine ls
  • docker-machine create
  • eval "$(docker-machine env default)"
  • docker-machine start
  • docker-machine stop
  • docker-machine kill

Docker Compose

  • Organize your containers and services
  • docker-compose.yml
  • 'docker-compose up' to deploy containers
  • Gives an abstraction for deploying multiple services

Docker Swarm

  • Combine a pool of Docker hosts into 1
  • Can create Clusters
  • Uses Docker API
  • Discovery Services
  • Scheduling

Docker Hub

  • A host for containers
  • Publish your containers
  • Search Public repositories
  • Pull down to build containers

Docker Cloud

  • Deploy to your own cloud
  • Define a node
  • Define cluster of nodes of same type
  • Cluster Nodes have to by of the same provider
  • You can use with AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean or your own hosts

Building Containers

  • Start with base image
  • Use Dockerfile to define and set up
  • Can run and commit, but better to use Dockerfile 
  • For Nodejs apps, split the npm install and adding code step into separate steps

Dockerfile

FROM node:6.1.0

RUN mkdir /src
COPY package.json /src
WORKDIR /src 
RUN npm install

ENV foo bar
 
# Add your source files
COPY . /src  
CMD ["npm","start"]

Dockerfile commands

  • FROM specify base container image
  • ADD/COPY lets you add files to container
  • RUN will let you run a Bash command
  • CMD takes an array of commands
  • ENV sets up an environment variable
  • EXPOSE exposes a port
  • USER to set the user
  • WORKDIR to set the directory your working dir

Docker Build

bash > docker build -t username/container:version /src

Docker run

bash > docker run -d -p 80:3000 username/container:version

Honorable Mentions

  • Kubernetes
  • Mesos
  • Heroku

Demo

Code

  • https://github.com/jaxnode-UG/jaxnodechat
  • https://github.com/jaxnode-UG/node6es2015
  • https://slides.com/davidfekke/node6docker

Questions

Contact

  • David Fekke @ gmail dot com
  • Twitter @JaxNode
  • Skype: davidfekke

Node 6 and Docker

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