The Front-end Takeover
summary
Argues that a thick front end, thin backend scales — shows a working stack: Sammy.js (core ~15KB, v0.6.1), jQuery, Mustache, CouchDB and a Ruby build tool Sooka that packages apps as CouchDB design docs. Demonstrates a slide app and a to‑do app stored 100% in CouchDB with replication and no server code, explains a new render context (promise‑like chains to avoid callback pyramids) and notes a QUnit test suite.
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chapters (37)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:03Im working
- 1:28Flashback
- 1:41jQuery Comp 2009
- 3:20New Twitter
- 3:57Validation
- 4:19Twitter
- 4:40SameJS
- 4:56SammyJS
- 5:22jQuery
- 6:11API
- 6:46API Design
- 7:12Max Matsumoto
- 8:32Sammys API
- 10:32Sammys Documentation
- 10:42Sams API
- 11:18Sammy 061
- 11:28Render Context
- 12:13New way
- 14:37Chains
- 15:58Swinger
- 16:51Open Source
- 19:21Sokka
- 19:38Ruby
- 19:58I love Ruby
- 20:42Sokka Generate
- 20:59okka App
- 21:25Live Demo
- 22:50Talk
- 23:02All in Couch
- 26:19CSS Demo
- 27:09GitHub
- 27:27Mac
- 27:47test suite
- 28:06thats about it
- 28:16no bacon
- 29:01SCSS
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