Taming Client-Server Communication
summary
Demonstrates concrete libraries and working code: rest.js is a thin HTTP client with configurable interceptors (mime parsing, retries, basic auth, OAuth) and a chainable API for shared clients; msgs.js implements enterprise integration patterns (channels, transformers, adapters) with a WebSocket adapter and a Redis gateway for cross-process pub/sub. Shows a running circles demo on Cloud Foundry across three instances that broadcasts mouse movements via SockJS/WebSockets and Redis, proving the approach scales.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Start
- 0:22Poor abstractions
- 1:50How do I use rest.js?
- 5:06What's an interceptor?
- 5:46What can interceptors do?
- 6:43Provided interceptors
- 8:48Custom interceptors
- 9:54A real interceptor: basic auth
- 10:37Chaining interceptors
- 12:31Interceptors in practice
- 14:22What about events?
- 15:06The problem with WebSocket libraries
- 15:54msgs.js
- 16:20Hello World
- 18:20Messaging primitives
- 21:42Scalable broadcast server
- 22:41Let's not forget about the client
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