Re: powerEXT for node.js

[Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin,

So the programmers had to abandon whatever work they have done in RPG in
your setup? What I want to do is to be able to run node.js side by side
with ILE CGI.

Btw, node.js is not a web server but 'just' a Virtual Machine that runs
javascript on any platform. It is very similar to Java's JVM that without a
class library basically reads/writes data through StdIn and StdOut that
through the included classes can point to anything including HTTP sockets
and IFS files etc.

Neither node.js or JVM comes with a predefined structured environment like
ILE (QSYS.LIB) that has a simple structure like
/QSYS.LIB/LIBRARY/OBJECT.TYPE.

powerEXT for node is not a NPM that runs under node.js but an environment
that runs on top of node.js VM in a predefined directory structure.and then
it has a number of preinstalled node.js modules that supports web
development and SQL DB I/O on JSON resultset level thus simplifying the SQL
part that may be build by system delivered node.js modules or NPM's like
Waterline ORM.

DataQueues - what are you talking about?

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 10:03 PM, Kevin Turner <kevin.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I did a similar thing by rewriting the entire Renaissance Framework
> server-side code in node.js.  It is quite neat - each RPGLE server program
> can be replaced by a node.js module that is simply "require"ed at
> run-time.  The developers (all RPG backgrounds) just have to write the
> server programs as modules based on a boilerplate and it just plugs right
> in.  The client side is identical for the RPG and node instances so nothing
> to learn.   It can use any database supported by the Waterline ORM and uses
> Redis for session data and to replace data queues.
>
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> Rützou
> Sent: 05 February 2017 18:55
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> Subject: [WEB400] powerEXT for node.js
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> I started testing node.js like anyone else but couldn’t figure out how to
> manage a whole application, node.js seems to be very nerdy where everybody
> is chasing what NPM’s to use but I found very few descriptions on how to
> handle node.js in a production environment and how to chop up code in small
> Apps like I know it from ILE CGI on IBM i.
>
>
>
> So I decided to build my own ‘package’ based on the experience from
> CGIDEV2 and powerEXT Core that both hide the complexity of handle HTTP
> requests in and out and complex string operations.
>
>
>
> The result can be read about here  http://powerext.com/core.htm
>
>
>
> I will make it available for download as soon I have testet the ‘package’
> on IBM i and made a simple  installation procedure for I - but my plan is
> that it should run as a base environment on any platform that runs node.js
> and it is therefore developed on a Windows PC.
>
>
>
> Feel free to comment …
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Henrik Rützou
>
> http://powerEXT.com <http://powerext.com/>
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