JavaScript: The new lingua franca of the internet

&yet has a great post today which is beginning to outline the the framework of a “Javascript” ecosystem for a complete web application written all the way through the stack with Javascript. The server-side models and DB structure usually have strong relations to the content being displayed in the browser. For a web store the item has a title, description, price, related items, etc. You have one application model written in one language, displayed in the browser in HTML with some fancy JavaScript to model the object again and handle all the changes. Why duplicate all this code over and over, in different languages? Write it once in backbone and be done.

&yet has taken the stack of

• backbone.js
• CommonJS
• Socket.io
• node.js

If you are looking at a seamless JavaScript stack, and already are using CouchDB you should also take a look at backbone-couchdb which is taking a different approach to the same complete JavaScript stack concept.