Javascript Is The New Cranberry

25 May

Javascript is the new cranberry – It’s in everything! Ok, so this may be old news but I just realized that if you really wanted to, you could build an entire data-driven application using only javascript.

Obviously, there’s client-side javascript for user interactions and AJAX for asynchronous requests to the server. But, in most use-cases those requests were being processed with some other middle-ware – PHP, Ruby, Python, etc. Now with Jaxer, javascript can be your processing language.

Then, with CouchDB’s JSON and Javascript interface, you can use javascript for all database interactions as well. Heck, you can make HTTP requests straight from the browser onto CouchDB without the need for a middle-ware processor. Javascript from top to bottom – hats off to you Javascript salesman.

Anyone know of any implementations of all Javascript stack?

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