PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects
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PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects
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Re: PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects
#2Why don't any of the examples use Java?... Even the examples on GitHub, none of it looks any different than a Node.js project.
Re: PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects
#3Why don't any of the examples use Java?... Even the examples on GitHub, none of it looks any different than a Node.js project.
Because it's still javascript, just running on JVM instead of... v8?
At least, that's my read of the project.
Re: PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects
#4Why don't any of the examples use Java?... Even the examples on GitHub, none of it looks any different than a Node.js project.
An oversimplified way to describe node.js is: javascript bindings for libuv.
purpleJS would be javascript bindings for some Java framework.
Re: PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects
#5This could be pretty cool. So in theory, all the Java, Scala, etc servers out there can wire up an isomorphic single page app without calling out to a Node process.
Once the docs are written... https://github.com/purplejs/purplejs/wiki/Embedding
Re: PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects
#6Get your JS to run as slow and crappy as a real Java application! :)
Re: PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects
#7Why don't any of the examples use Java?... Even the examples on GitHub, none of it looks any different than a Node.js project.
Because it's still javascript, just running on JVM instead of... v8? At least, that's my read of the project.
Ok, that's part of it. This line from the page is what gets me, "create server applications with Javascript but access and use Java libraries" and I think an example of that is very important.
Re: PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects
#8Isn't use case proposed by PurpleJS covered by Vert.x already? Or am I missing anything?
Re: PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects
#9I didn't see any mention of Rhino. Does he know that existed (exists?)?
Re: PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects
#10How does this relate to Nashorn?
With something like Avatar-JS [1] you can even run some NodeJS apps without modifications on the JVM.