10 Building Blocks for Enterprise JavaScript

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10 Building Blocks for
Enterprise JavaScript Applications
Geertjan Wielenga
@geertjanw
Oracle

A metaphor
for our age!
The distracted
society!
Facebook
beats
Rembrandt!
(And the end
of the world
is nigh.)

Actually...
They're using
a museum app.
And are finding
out more about
the paintings they
had been closely
focused on a few
minutes earlier.

Browser platform Java platform

10 Building Blocks of Enterprise JavaScript
1. Resist the hype.
2. Rediscover HTML5 as an application framework.
3. Compare responsive design between CSS and JavaScript.
4. Evaluate the framework vs. library approach.
5. Incorporate modularity.
6. Evaluate abstractions over JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
7. Don't worry about ecosystem volatility.
8. Reorientate around WONTA instead of WORA.
9. Evaluate corporate frameworks.
10. Reconsider JavaScript as assembly language.

1. Resist the hype

● Data heavy
monitoring systems.
● Behind the firewall
management systems.
● Large resolution
requirements.
● All the users
in the same room.

1a. Consider supplementing
with new devices

● Mobile app
to receive urgent notifications
for air traffic controlers.
● Web app
to display reports
for upper management.
● And keep the main system
exactly as it has always been
since that's how it makes sense.

2. Rediscover HTML5 as an
application framework

HTML5: Not Documents Only, Not Multimedia Only
●
Originally, HTML was designed
as a language for semantically
describing scientific documents.
●
HTML5 is a response to
demands for multimedia experiences
(animations, games, movies, and audio).
●
However, it also includes
built-in application-development features.
●
Semantic markup: <article>, <header>
●
New input types: e-mail, URL, color.
●
New Intellisense/Auto Completion.
●
Validation attributes, 'required' and 'pattern'.

Principles of HTML5
●
New features should be
based on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
●
Need for external plugins, e.g., Flash,
should be reduced.
●
Error handling should be easier
than previous versions.
●
Scripting should be replaced
by more markup.
●
HTML5 should be device independent.

Demos

3. Compare responsive design
between CSS and JavaScript

CSS: Not Only Styling of Documents
●
Originally, CSS was designed
as a stylesheet language for describing
the look and feel of documents.
●
Unlike previous versions, CSS3
is modular: over 50 modules
make up CSS3.
●
“Media Query” is the most well known.
●
Tailer to different resolutions.
●
Enable responsive design.
●
But... also take a look at JavaScript for this.

CSS: Maybe Less Effective Than JavaScript
●
CSS3 Media Queries
show/hide elements from the DOM.
●
JavaScript libraries
load/unload elements from the DOM.
●
Response.js:
http://responsejs.com
●
Foundation Interchange:
http://foundation.zurb.com

4. Evaluate the
framework vs. library approach

Different Libraries, Different Purposes
•
Application Frameworks & Libraries
Angular, Knockout, Backbone, Ext, React, Ember, and more
•
Component Libraries
JQuery UI, Sencha, PrimeFaces, and more
•
Module Systems
RequireJS, Browserfy, and more
•
Build Systems
Grunt, Gulp, Brunch, and more
•
Testing Frameworks
Protractor, Jasmine, Qunit, Karma, and more

Framework
approach:
Library
approach:

5. Incorporate modularity

Modularity: Not Natively Built into JavaScript, Right Now
●
Consider and compare available modularity solutions
●
Require.js:
http://requirejs.org/
●
Browserify:
http://browserify.org/
●
SystemJS
●
ECMAScript 6 Modules

6. Evaluate abstractions over
JavaScript, CSS, and HTML

HTML: Emmet
JavaScript: TypeScript, CoffeeScript
CSS: SASS, LESS

7. Don't worry about
ecosystem volatility

Life in a Volatile Ecosystem
●
Lifespan of your app equals lifespan of the framework you're using.
●
1 ½ to 2 year lifespan.
●
Is the code hard to read, no worries, it'll be rewritten from scratch soon.
●
Don't worry so much about maintainability and backward compatibility.
●
Things change fast, the ecosystem is already different right now
than when this presentation started.

8. Reorientate around WONTA
instead of WORA

Write Once, Never Touch Again

9. Evaluate corporate frameworks

Unexpected Organizations in Enterprise JavaScript
and open source software projects in general
●
Microsoft – several
●
IBM – several
●
SalesForce – several
●
ING – github.com/Spectingular (AngularJS-based component framework.)
●
PayPal – krakenjs.com (Node.js/Express based application framework.)
●
Oracle – oraclejet.org (Toolkit of open source JavaScript libraries.)
●
And more.

Requirements First
•
Responsive Design
•
Modularity
•
Single Page Application
•
Accessibility
•
Internationalization
•
Security & Performance Optimization
•
Conformance to Standards
•
Documentation & Support

Oracle IoT Cloud Service

Oracle JET: Free & Open Source Enterprise JavaScript
Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit
•
oraclejet.org, @oraclejet, github.com/oracle/oraclejet
•
Not a framework, not a library, but a toolkit
•
Collection of open source libraries, e.g., Require, Knockout, JQuery
•
Free and open source component library (Graphs, Charts, etc)
•
Architecture and templates
•
Enterprise solutions, e.g., accessibility
•
Actively used within Oracle, since about 3 years

10. Reconsider JavaScript
as assembly language

Write in Java – Let Framework Create JavaScript
●
https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-languages-that-compile-to-js
●
Vaadin: http://vaadin.com
●
DukeScript: http://dukescript.com
●
Framework for creating applications for all devices from single codebase.
●
Plain Java applications that internally use JavaScript and HTML.
●
Business logic in Java and view in HTML.
●
Maven archetypes in Maven central.

Write in Java – Let Framework Create JavaScript

Contact Details
@geertjanw
geertjan.wielenga@oracle.com
blogs.oracle.com/geertjan

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