• Reduces boiler plate associated with updating the dom
• Good separation of model and view
• Module system
• Dependency injection
• Testing is part of the package
• Just enough structure, yet flexible
• Create your own html tags
• <emc-graphic>, <emc-list>, <emc-guided-ui>, ...
• Developed by Google to speed up development
• Open-sourced in 2011

• Dependency injection at it's core
• Applications are made up of modules
• Modules can package component libraries
  
• Modules can package whole features
  
• Modules can even package whole applications 
  
• Modules can be worked on separately
• Separate repositories
• Versioned
• Testable
• Mockable

 {
  "name": "hyperv-flr",
  "version": "0.1.2",
  "dependencies": {
    "angular": "1.2.6",
    "jquery": "~1.10.2",
    "emc-ui": "http://ucaslab.lss.emc.com/gui/emc-ui#0.1.12",
    "emc-angular-login": "http://ucaslab.lss.emc.com:gui/emc-login#0.1.4"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "angular-mocks": "1.2.6",
    "angular-scenario": "1.2.6"
  }
}

bower install 

• installed through npm
• runs on node
• runs over git
• created by twitter ( open sourced )
  
  

which millions?

1. jquery
2. angularjs
3. underscore
4. 12,077 registered gui packages
5. AND both EMC FLR Projects

• What it is
• What it's good for (and not good for)
• Why it's so popular
• Why it matters to us

• Javascript on the server
• Made possible by Google's V8 virtual machine
• V8 is the engine inside Chrome browser
• Ryan Dahl, started in 2009, released in 2011
• Started because : he wanted a web application framework built with two-way communication in mind.
• Written in C/C++, .js (downloadable libraries available for all popular OSes)
• Open source (MIT license)
• 516 contributors on github

• Basics (File IO, Network IO, TCP,UDP,HTTP, REST,...)
• Database drivers (Mongo, Couch, Cassandra,...)
• Message bus drivers (AMQP, JMS)
• Call Java APIs (node java bridge)
• Unit test frameworks (Mocha, Jasmine)
• Code test coverage (Istanbul)
• Static code analysis (JSHint)
• Build automation (Grunt)
• There are 73k node packages in the node package repository
• Home automation?!

• For better or worse, javascript is the most popular programming language on the planet
• Built-in HTTP server
  
• Excellent package management (NPM)
• Speed of development
• Github fork, pull, merge
• Github has 20 mil monthly uniques, 180th site on the webs
• Handles high concurrency without any hard thinking

• Big talent pool, simple language, low development time
• So says LinkedIn, Ebay, Walmart
• Enables smaller more agile teams
• The pattern is to build isolated testable, mockable, components
• Build an internal library of small reusable components
  
• Using the popular Github model
• Really about the tools
• Leverage the momentum of the node community
• tons of on-line resources, community meetups, etc.

 {
  "name": "emc-rest-hypervflr",
  "private": true,
  "description": "REST for hypervflr",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "dependencies": {
    "emc-base-server": "ucas-gitlab.lss.emc.com/raven/emc-base-server.git",
    "emc-rest-login": "ucas-gitlab.lss.emc.com/raven/emc-rest-login.git",
    "emc-harmony-auth": "ucas-gitlab.lss.emc.com/raven/emc-harmony-auth.git",
    "underscore": "~1.6.0",
    ...
  },
  "devDependencies": {
     ....

 npm install