netflix/falcor-express-demo

Demonstration Falcor end point for a Netflix-style Application using express

Falcor Express Middleware Demonstration

This project is a demonstration of how to create a stateless Virtual JSON Graph object on your application server using a Falcor Router and some express middleware.

Getting Started

Clone the repo: https://github.com/Netflix/falcor-express-demo.git

cd falcor-express-demo
npm install
npm start

Open your browser and visit: http://localhost:9090

Notes

Changing the index.html file will refresh the browser automatically using LiveReload. Changing the server index.js file will restart the server using nodemon.

This will download a webpage which makes several requests from data from the model.json resource on the application server, and prints the results to the console. You will not see anything on your screen until you open up the developer console. Checkout the source of the website to see what types of operations can be performed on the model.json file on the server.

For more information on how the Router works and the structure of model.json, see the Router source at https://github.com/Netflix/falcor-router-demo.

falcor-express-demo's Issues

Please include model.json

Thanks for the project. Could you please bundle the model.json with the repo so that I don't have to trace it down and add it myself? When I run npm start, a blank screen is the last thing anyone wants to see.

npm install hangs forever

Hi,

I was trying to install the demo in ubuntu 14.04 LTS and npm install hangs in the following line:
make: Leaving directory '/home/ksankaran/workspace/node/falcor-express-demo/node_modules/falcor-router-demo/node_modules/pouchdb/node_modules/leveldown/build'

Any help is appreciated. Please let me know if you need any other data points from my end.

HttpDataSource directly in new falcor.Model doesn't work

The index.js has:

var model = new falcor.Model({
        source: new falcor.HttpDataSource('/model.json')
});

But this actually doesn't work, it will keep requesting even if the value is already available.

This does work

var modelSource = new falcor.HttpDataSource('/model.json');
var model = new falcor.Model({
        source: modelSource
});

Installation completes with errors.

Getting the following errors during installation:

Error: Cannot find module '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:286:25)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:475:10)
    at startup (node.js:117:18)
    at node.js:951:3

Error: Cannot find module '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:286:25)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:475:10)
    at startup (node.js:117:18)
    at node.js:951:3