devops_excuses

(1) Who am I?

• Baz O'Mahony
• Node Developer @Shutterstock
• Music team

(2) What are we going to do?

• Build an Express 4 web app
• Use MongoDB as our datastore
• Write some tests
• Use swig for templates
• And some other shiz

(3) What will you need?

• Node.js ^0.10.11
• MongoDB

(4) Setting up

• Create a directory for the app to live in.
• Express 4 has a separate init script
• Not going to use it tonight

(5) Getting started

• Run a simple application
• Serve 1 page

(6) A better application structure

• Create a more maintainable layout
• Use require to help us out

(7) Thinking about testing

• Why is this layout difficult to test?
• Code smell with fake private conventions

(8) Writing a test

• Exposing "controllers" easily
• Mocha, Sinon and Chai
• Spys, Stubs and Mocks

(9) Setup and Teardown

• Setting up for each test.
• TDD/BDD is teh bizniz

(10) Mongo and Mongoose models

• Connect to the database
• Create mongoose model

(11) Templating in Express

• Swig
• Static middleware
• Tell Express about it
• res.render()

(12) Combine all this!

• YAY Website!

(13) More templating

• Extend a layouts
• Include a partials

(14) Create a new record

• Update model
• Express body-parser middleware

(15) Mounting routes

• Add a new controller
• Mount route on different root

(16) Routes with parameters

• More RESTful routes
• Regexp
• Watch out!

DONE! (for now)

• Questions?
• Further requests?
• http://www.github.com/TheEwok/
• IRC channel
• the.ewok@gmail.com