rest easy with deployd - ticonf eu 2013
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Deployd
REST Easy with Deployd
Boydlee Pollentine @boydleep
What is Deployd?In a nutshell…
Deployd allows you to design, build and scale API’s for web and mobile apps in
minutes.It’s free, and open source.
It even comes with a full dashboard system to allow you to create and manage your collection
API’s, create Events and insert/edit data records.
It’s built on top of Node.JS and MongoDB so you know it’s going to be fast, and
scalable.
Create RESTful API’s through design…
Deployd is built around a series of REST calls that let’s you create “CRUD” collections (GET, DEL, PUT, POST).
The Deployd Dashboard
Scripted Logic through Events…
It uses “Events” for each of the REST methods to allow you to intercept calls
and inject your own business logic code.
Events Logic Screen
Access Other Collections & Join
Results…
You can use the built-in DPD library to access other collections in your Deployd database and script business logic based
on those queries…
Accessing Collections via DPD
Full User login, logout and creation support
out of the box…
You can use the built-in “user” collection type to automatically manage your
system logins, logouts and user creations.
You can restrict access to certain
REST calls by throwing “cancel”…
As well as throwing errors, determining if a property has changed
& more…
protect() = don’t allow updates for this propertyprevious() = object containing previous item valueschanged() = informs if a property item was updated
hide() = hides a property in your REST responseerror() / errorif() = adds an error message to the
response
Use Modules to perform tasks that Deployd doesn’t already do…..
There’s a number of Deployd modules already available for sending e-mail and get files from
Amazon S3, amongst other things.
They’re based on Node Packages, so you can re-use any Node.JS package with NPM!
There’s a tonne of examples at Deployd.com
There’s plenty of sample apps at Deployd.com that show what you can do
with the system, including integration with AngularJS and other Node.JS based systems.