Understanding Mojito

Yahoo's Mojito lets you run code where it's easiest.

Yahoo’s Mojito is a different kind of framework: all JavaScript, but running on both the client and the server. Code can run on the server, or on the client, depending on how the framework is tuned. It shook my web architecture assumptions by moving well beyond the convenience of a single language, taking advantage of that approach to process code where it seems most efficient. Programming this way will make it much easier to bridge the gap between developing code and running it efficiently.

I talked with Yahoo architect fellow and VP Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz (@olympum) about the possibilities Node opened and Mojito exploits.

Highlights from the full video interview include:

  • “The browser loses the chrome.” Web applications no longer always look like they’ve come from the Web. [Discussed at the 02:11 mark]
  • Basic “Hello World” in Mojito. How do you get started? [Discussed at the 05:05 mark]
  • Exposing web services through YQL. Yahoo Query Language lets you work with web services without sweating the details. [Discussed at the 07:56 mark]
  • Manhattan, a closed Platform as a Service. If you want a more complete hosting option for your Mojito applications, take a look. [Discussed at the 10:29 mark]
  • Code should flow among devices. All of these devices speak HTML and JavaScript. Can we help them talk with each other? [Discussed at the 11:50 mark]

You can view the entire conversation in the following video:

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