deployd

realtime bridge

quick start

[sudo] npm install deployd -g
dpd create my-app

features

• secure access to database APIs directly from untrusted clients (browser js, mobile apps, etc)
• automatic properties and relationships for complex queries without joins (or sql)
• notify clients in realtime of events occurring within the database
• simple security specific language for scripting access control based on context
• useable in your existing node app or as a stand-alone server
• user and session management
• all APIs exposed over REST / HTTP

goals

• be database agnostic
• be client agnostic (usable from browser, servers, mobile apps, etc)
• be a good web citizen / support native web best practices
• be a good node citizen / use node best practices
• can be hosted by modern cloud platforms
• support extension through node modules and npm
• follow the ways of node
• follow the 12 factor methodology

modules

core

• resource - base module, mountable at a URL
• collection - allows users to query, save, and delete JSON objects
• users collection - allows users to register / login / logout
• ??? - allow users to listen and emit events
• file system - allows users to upload / download / stream files
• router - determines a resource based on a URL
• emitter - global message bus / event emitter
• sessions - manage authentication of users
• resources - internal access to mounted resources
• db - used by all modules to persist data
• http server - exposes APIs over HTTP

external

• client - simple client for remote access from node and browsers (more comming soon)

third party

coming soon

questions

Consult the documentation or contact ritchie at deployd com.

changelog

0.5

• removed property.optional in favor of property.required

license

Copyright 2012 deployd, llc

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.