Re: powerEXT for node.js

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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From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Henrik
Rützou
Sent: 05 February 2017 18:55
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 …



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Regards,
Henrik Rützou

http://powerEXT.com <http://powerext.com/>
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