The Framework for API lovers

@elefrantjs

About me

Marcos Sanz Latorre

@marsanla

IT. Engineer

I’m Spanish

Denmark, USA, Poland

Love Basketball & Coding

About me

Created 13Genius (Group of friends)

App Twitter, Elefrant, Meetk.at, Fantity

I quit my stable job, to follow my dream

My Team

A bit of background…

We love to develop our ideas

Start Meetk.at project

Needs

Multidevice system - API

Modern language

Scalable

Technology

NodeJs :

– Fast and easy (Javascript)

– We can use for everything

– XMPP, Reverse Ajax, Websockets, Server-sent Events, Long

Polling, Flash Sockets…

– Native bindings

We want a Realtime app

What’s an API?

API = Application Program Interface

Set of Routines, Protocols and Tools

Used by a lot of companies

Benefits

Standard communications between App’s

Create App’s in the Cloud

Earn & Save Money

Multidevice

Light App’s

Fast Maintenance

In the market…

We wanted…

Just an API Framework Server

Light and Simple

Modulable

So…

had borned!

Elefrant

NodeJs Framework to create API servers

HMC

(Model & Controller modulable)

Restify based

Fast & Easy

Light

Open source

Features

Modulable & Customizable

Scalable + Cluster

Events

Socket, HTTP

Auto Documentation

Authentication Basic & 2.0

Features

Validation

Rate Limit controller

ORM Waterline

Audit & Logger

Custom Errors

Cache

Pros

Simple

Authentication

Documentation

Fast

Architecture

Versionable

Framework

Elefrant

Balancer

Websockets

http/Ajax

Cache

Db3rd

Services

Actions

Pub/Sub

Components

Core

Who’s using…

Health and Nutrition Startup

Security and Biometric Software

Own projects

Current Version

Version 0.1

We have just started

but we have a great future

v 0.1 (Current)

Core

Models

Controllers (API versions)

Config

Routes

Env

Init

Core

Models

Controllers (API versions)

Config

Routes

Env

1 2

3

4

5

6

Controllers

Versions of API’s

https://api.acme.com/v1/products

https://api.acme.com/v2/products

Validation of params from path, body, query

Documentation

Functionality of the actions

Controllersadd: {

spec: {

summary: 'Return a list of users, filtered by parameters’,

….

},

validation: {

email: {

isRequired: true,

isEmail: true,

scope: 'body’,

description: ''

},

…

},

action: function (req, res, next) {

// Functionality

}

}

Models

MongoDb + ElasticSearch

Validation in Model Layer

Typical Functionality of models – like CRUD

Routing

Auto generate route from:

{

name: 'nameforroute',

path: 'url/of/the/route',

method: 'GET or POST or PUT or DELETE or PATCH',

version: [

'1.0.0',

’2.0.1'

],

auth: true or false,

scopes: [

'scopeItem',

'scopeItem'

],

action: api.v1.nameController.method

}

Config

All enviroments variables

-Config

- Env

- Production- Database.js

- …

- Test- …

- Development- Database.js

- …

- Redis.js

- Database.js

- Session.js

- Logger.js

- …

module.exports = {

host: 'localhost',

port: '27017',

database: 'elefrant'

};

Access:

config.database.host

Integrations

Task

automator

Continuous

Integration

v 0.2

Core

Components

Actions (API versions)

Config Env

Default

Components

v 0.2

Core

Components

Actions (API versions)

Config Env

Default

Components

1 2 3

45

6

Features

+ features v 0.1

More control

Develop your own components

Open ocean of possibilities

…

Components

Config

Particles.json

Components, modules or plugins

Example: oauth2.0, logger, response, audit, elasticSearch, …

nameOfComp.js

Lib

Whatever you need…

ComponentsParticles.json – (Variables to define the component)

Example of component index:

module.exports = function(config, logger) {

return {

start: function() {

http.createServer(app).listen(config.server.port, function

() {

logger(‘Server listening on' +

config.server.port);

});

}

};

};

module.exports.__module = {

args: [”config", ”logger”]

};

Actions

Models

ControllersConfig

Env

Routes

Group of actions for API

Example: Users, Settings, Tweets, Favourites, …

Integrations

Release v. 0.2

End October 2014

Future features

Game server Modules

Mailer

Background Tasks

PubSub

TCP

Hooks

…

Real case

Client

Elefrant

Balancer

MongoD

bCache

Redis

API System

Elastic

search

Response Times

Ram: 512 MB

Processor: 1 Core

SSD: 20 GB

Tranfer: 1 Tb

Request:

Search items in mongoDb using

ElasticSearch

First call 84 ms

Next calls 4-15 ms

Con. Conex. ≤500

Get Started v0.1

Donwload from Github

https://github.com/Elefrant/elefrant

Install dependencies

npm install

Execute Elefrant

grunt

Join to Elefrant Code Team!

Want to get involved?

www.elefrant.com

marcos.sanz@13genius.com

Thank you!!

@elefrantjs @marsanla