[undertow-dev] Using JavaScript with Undertow

[Bill O'Neil]

Could this potentially be used to server side render react.js components
inside of undertow to create an isomorphic app?  I was considering
investigating a way to do that.

Thanks,
Bill

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Stuart Douglas <sdouglas at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> There has been some discussion about supporting JavaScript in
> Wildfly/Undertow for a while now, and as a result I have come up with a
> simple proof of concept of the form I think this support could take.
>
> The form that this is taking is undertow.js, which is a jar file that you
> can include in your apps and allows you to register JavaScript based
> handlers. These handlers can be mapped to URL's, and inject container
> resources such as CDI beans and JNDI data sources. It also provide some
> simple JavaScript wrappers to make some EE objects easier to use from
> scripts.
>
> Injection support is pluggable, and this can be used programatically from
> embedded Undertow.
>
> At the moment handlers are mainly useful as REST endpoints, although if
> there is interest I am planning on adding template engine support as well.
>
> When using Wildfly upstream's new external resources feature this allows
> for changes in your script files to be immediately visible, without even
> needing to copy to an exploded deployment.
>
> I envisage the main use of this will not be creating node.js like apps
> that are pure javascript, but rather to allow simpler parts of the of a
> mostly Java app to be written in JavaScript, providing a hybrid approach
> and this avoiding the compile+redeploy cycle for the javascript parts.
>
> Full details are here: https://github.com/undertow-io/undertow.js
>
> I have an example of the Kitchen Sink Wildfly quickstart that has been
> re-done to use this here:
>
>
> https://github.com/wildfly/quickstart/compare/master...stuartwdouglas:js#diff-598449fd216b3768c251e297895211deR1
>
> At this stage I am really not sure how this will evolve, or if it will go
> anywhere, I am just putting it out there to get some feedback.
>
> Stuart
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