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Mastering RethinkDB

By : Shahid Shaikh
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Mastering RethinkDB

By: Shahid Shaikh

Overview of this book

RethinkDB has a lot of cool things to be excited about: ReQL (its readable,highly-functional syntax), cluster management, primitives for 21st century applications, and change-feeds. This book starts with a brief overview of the RethinkDB architecture and data modeling, and coverage of the advanced ReQL queries to work with JSON documents. Then, you will quickly jump to implementing these concepts in real-world scenarios, by building real-time applications on polling, data synchronization, share market, and the geospatial domain using RethinkDB and Node.js. You will also see how to tweak RethinkDB's capabilities to ensure faster data processing by exploring the sharding and replication techniques in depth. Then, we will take you through the more advanced administration tasks as well as show you the various deployment techniques using PaaS, Docker, and Compose. By the time you have finished reading this book, you would have taken your knowledge of RethinkDB to the next level, and will be able to use the concepts in RethinkDB to develop efficient, real-time applications with ease.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering RethinkDB
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 10. Using RethinkDB and Horizon

In the last two chapters, we focused on development and we are going to continue the same in our last chapter. Generally, there are three main layers of a web application development stack:

  • Frontend

  • Middle layer

  • Backend

Even though Node.js fills the gap by using the same language, that is, JavaScript, across all three layers, there is still a need from some developers out there who just want to design their frontend application instead of writing backend logic.

Here comes Horizon - Open source backend for JavaScript. In one line, Horizon allows you to write web or mobile apps without writing backend code. Horizon uses RethinkDB as its data store and provides you with the backend logic ready to use.

In this chapter, we are going to learn topics related to Horizon:

  • How Horizon works

  • Installing and configuring Horizon

  • Developing simple web application using Horizon

We will also look over some of the useful API's provided by Horizon.

Horizon seems really interesting...