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Cowboy and Batman.js for Erlang Web Development

Why Cowboy and Batman.js There are a lot of Erlang web frameworks out there today. Not all are modeled after the MVC model (see Nitrogen), but I think all of them are addressing the problem the wrong way. I recently gave a presentation, slides here and the code for this example here, describing my perferred method for using Erlang for web development and why I think it is the best way to go. ...

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Erlang, Cowboy and Batman.js for Building Web Applications

I’ll have a complete walk of through using Cowboy and Batman.js to build the TodoMVC clone in a few days. For now I have the slides from my talk at the Chicago Erlang User Group: Chicago Erlang User Group April, 4th 2012 I couldn’t get iframe embedding to work with Wordpress… So if anyone knows what that is up with please comment.

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Batman.js vs Knockout.js

The following is NOT a tutorial for either Batman.js or Knockout.js. But, it is instead a sort of side-by-side comparison of the two for creating a user creation form that POSTs the new user’s data as JSON to the backend. The method of web development I’ve come to find the best is based on heavy frontend Javascript (though written in Coffeescript) communicating with a backend via a RESTful interface. This is appealing, because you are not cluttering the application logic with view related code. ...