We are looking at using Apigee and are intrigued by the notion of hosting node.js code directly inside Apigee's framework.
From what we can tell, popular Node modules such as Express and others are included. In a video, we thought we saw that users would be able to upload/incorporate other npm modules as well as needed. But, we are unsure how to do that.
Any advice, guidance, insight, would be most appreciated.
Thanks.
You can deploy your Node.js app along with other supporting NPM modules using the apigeetool utility. This utility packages all of your modules and deploys everything to Apigee Edge. For information, see the section "Use apigeetool to deploy your Node.js apps to Apigee Edge"
http://apigee.com/docs/api-services/content/deploying-standalone-nodejs-app
Also, take a look at the Node.js samples apps on GitHub, where you can find additional examples and instructions (in README files):
https://github.com/apigee/node-samples
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We have a client interested in our app, which relies on Firebase. However, they want to use this while they are out to sea and won't be able to connect to the cloud.
They do have a local server and a local wi-fi network.
Does anyone know if using the Firebase Local Emulator Suite would be a practical solution to this problem?
The Firebase Emulator Suite is for development, not sure production use. From its documentation:
The Firebase Local Emulator Suite is a set of advanced tools for developers looking to build and test apps locally
So it is (currently at least) not suitable for using in the scenario you describe.
What you can do is look at the offline mode of the various Firebase products, to see if they fit your needs. I recommend checking the documentation for each, or this handy video that covers all of them: Firebase offline: What works, what doesn't, and what you need to know.
Is it possible to do Continuous integration.
We are using Power shell script to deploy BTDF packages. I found many resources to do continuous integration for BizTalk using TFS but is it possible to do continuous integration. Is there any resources available for the same.
Well, consider "continuous integration" is a pattern, not a thing. So sure, you absolutely can do CI with BizTalk apps using a SVN. Really, the code repository really isn't a factor.
So, if you are automatically, or at least very easily, doing a build-> deploy cycle with some tests, you're doing CI. The specific underlying products doesn't really matter.
However, yes, CI with BizTalk and TFS is easier because of the tooling.
Yes, it is perfectly feasible to use SVN for CI with BizTalk - I implemented such a solution back in 2008/9 using JetBrains TeamCity connected to SVN, utilising MSBuild scripts to perform the build, package and deployment to a test BizTalk environment. We then packaged the MSBuild scripts to perform the actual deploy to the various production environments.
If you're stuck with using SVN then I would seriously take a look at TeamCity (https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/) and use a Powershell Build Runner to build / deploy etc. your project - for a high-level overview on using PS in TeamCity, take a look at http://www.jokecamp.com/blog/tutorial-how-to-use-teamcity-powershell-runner-to-automatically-deploy-website/.
As for SVN, you seriously need to take a look at using a more modern, feature-rich and vulnerability-free VCS Take a look at using something a little more modern such as Visual Studio Online (i.e TFS in the cloud - https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-team-services-vs.aspx) or Git (hosted through the myriad hosting providers, e.g. a private repo on https://github.com/)
Best of luck!
PS. I agree with #Johns-305 comments fully!
I am trying to connect my tessel to firebase, and I have tried everything. Is anyone else having a similar problem? I have read that the tessel uses different web sockets than firebase, but I am really new and don't know much about that. Could anyone help me out?
Glad to hear that people are interested in using Firebase with the Tessel. I'm one of the Firebase engineers who has been working with the Tessel folks to make this happen. There are two Tessel Forum posts that give some more detail on the problem:
Firebase cannot be compiled by Colony
Websockets on Tessel
The Firebase node packages uses faye-websockets, which the Tessel compiler couldn't support. We got nodejs-websockets to compile, and built a version of the Firebase library to test the concept. I was able to read and write from Firebase using the Tessel, but we were very hesitant to release a separate version of Firebase to NPM just for use on the Tessel, especially since nodejs-websockets is not as well maintained as faye-websockets. I then spent an evening working with the Tessel folks to get faye-websockets working, and it now compiles, with the changes sitting out on a branch (tessel/runtime/JH-HTTPParser). I don't have a timeframe on these getting merged into Master and being shipped out to production, but I know there are a good number of SSL and websocket based API's who are waiting on these changes to hit the main branch.
TL;DR: Firebase compiles on the Tessel (you can build the code off the above branch), and it can either read or write (not both at the same time). When I get some more time, I will be debugging Tessel + Firebase to get this working correctly.
With the acquisition I haven't had much time to try. Last time I checked, things were compiling and running for some operations (I haven't tested everything) if we used a non-minified version of the Firebase library (not currently provided to end users). The issue here is that the minification puts all the variables in the same line, and the Tessel Lua VM would complain that there were more than 200 variables and wouldn't like it. I can play around with it some over the next week and see where things are, otherwise I can ping Jon and the Tessel folks to see how we can best move this issue along.
I am using SynergyKit for realtime communication. You can download Node.js library, which is fully supported by tessel platform and using websocket library, which is one of few libraries written in pure javascript.
You will be able to live observing all data in collections and sending messages. There is documentation for Node.js.
We successfully setup the Meteor 0.7.1.2 in Centos. Is it Latest version supporting installation in windows 8 officially?. If yes please share the information.
we know its supporting unofficially with the following url
http://win.meteor.com
Thanks
Ramu
I agree about the cloud solutions. I've used the unofficial Windows version and had some problems, but I am loving cloud development with Meteor.
If you are interested in trying it out, I wrote up an entire tutorial on how to get set up with cloud development in Meteor and included a screencast.
http://simpleprogrammer.com/2014/10/13/getting-started-meteor-tutorial-cloud/
Windows support is not yet official and win.meteor.com outlines some workarounds, the better ones which include utilizing a virtual machine. There is a suggested native solution (launchmeteor.exe), although unofficial, with key difference (for some developers) being Meteorite not work on Windows yet.
According to the roadmap trello board https://trello.com/c/ZMvnfMfI/11-official-windows-support official windows support is targeted for 1.0 if time permits, but it seems very unlikely.
For interim portability, you may want to have a look at cloud solutions like nitrous.io at http://help.nitrous.io/meteor-app/ which runs the dev environment on the cloud but has a windows desktop app http://blog.nitrous.io/2014/02/25/nitrous-desktop-is-now-available-for-windows.html which at least lets you develop locally and sync to your nitrous.io cloud box.
I've been leading rather large project that strives to "Mavenize" various testing apps produced by the engineering tools group over past 5+ years to test and optimize our home-built database. So far our group managed to successfully retrofit (beside obvious Java) few Coldfusion-based apps, PHP app, large .NET app with about 30 modules and currently working on roughly 40 C/C++ apps. Actually, once you abstract yourself from Java-centric nature of Maven and throw in few useful plugins such as antrun, exec, assembler and resource you can pretty much figure out way of "Mavenizing" just about anything.
So my question is - are there people who had this sort of experience - using Maven to manage non-Java projects? What was it? What language/technology? What did you end up using? How? Were you successful? And if not - what did you end up using as alternative?
Conceptually, Maven is not Java centric but Java is monopolizing most efforts as written on Wikipedia:
Theoretically, [Maven's plugin-based architecture] would allow anyone to write plugins to interface with build tools (compilers, unit test tools, etc.) for any other language. In reality, support and use for languages other than Java has been minimal.
Having that said, I don't have any personal experience of maven with something else than Java. But I can suggest to check out Maven for other languages? :)
We're using Maven to build a Flex application, and it's working quite nicely :).
I have used maven for generating documentation based on LaTeX source files. Using exec and some wrapper scripts, I can create PDF files and handle SCM releases.
One of the PDF files generated is included in a web app by letting maven package it into a jar file, which is referenced from the web app as a regular dependency. The web app can then access the PDF file on the class path.