ApeJS, a tiny server-side JavaScript framework for App Engine

http://lmatteis.github.com/apejs/

by sktrdie • 15 years ago

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lmatteis.github.com

olegp2• 15 years ago

Looks nice. What would make it even more awesome would be if you built your web framework on top of the CommonJS JSGI spec. That would allow it to run on other platforms like Common Node (http://olegp.github.com/common-node/) & by extension Node.js (without the data store part of course). This should be fairly straightforward to do and will not require that you support other CommonJS specs.

Btw, your statement "ApeJS is not compliant with CommonJS simply because all the stuff that CommonJS comes with will not work on Google App Engine where no I/O operations" is open to misinterpretation. You are able to do I/O on AppEngine by making HTTP requests to third party servers and accepting them from browsers.

treenyc3• 15 years ago

Check out http://ringojs.org

olegp2• 15 years ago

I have.

http://www.slideshare.net/olegp/ringo-js-talk

https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/commits/master?author=olegp

sktrdie4• 15 years ago

ApeJS will probably only concentrate on App Engine since there are other frameworks that already achieve the CommonJS compliance that you're talking about, like RingoJS.

ApeJS is actually more about trying to create a JavaScript layer around the App Engine API, so that you can use App Engine's services in a JavaScript sort of way... think of JS callbacks for asynch Datastore queries.

treenyc3• 15 years ago

and this Screen Cast on deploying it on Google App http://vimeo.com/10063607

sktrdie4• 15 years ago

That's a screen cast of RingoJS. For an ApeJS screen cast you can watch this: http://vimeo.com/30195942

aurelianito• 15 years ago

I like it. It is quite similar to my unfinished sandro-js project (http://code.google.com/p/sandrojs/).

Kudos for having a working version with a cute documentation.

libria• 15 years ago

Just a nitpick: JSON doesn't have functions and implies serialization. I'd just call it a javascript object.

sktrdie4• 15 years ago

Sure, that's why it states that it's "as easy as writing JSON".

e2daipi• 15 years ago

BUT using the ":" semicolon may induce the reader to infer that the code succeeding it is JSON.

It is implied…

Rinum• 15 years ago

Any connection to Project Ape? http://www.ape-project.org/

sktrdie4• 15 years ago

Not at all. Just an unfortunate semi-match of names... hopefully it won't confuse users.

ApeJS, a tiny server-side JavaScript framework for App Engine

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