ATLOM.JS: um Framework NODE.JS para aplicações Web baseado em componentes

Abstract

Currently many Node.js application frameworks with specific technologies and implementation standards are designed to optimize the software development process. Such unique characteristics add greater complexity to the system, resulting in a chain of negative consequences, such as the decrease in the number of users, decrease in the components developed for the platform and reduction of potential software reuse. In this work the development of a full-stack componentbased framework called Atlom.js was proposed, aiming to reduce the learning curve, as well as to optimize the software reuse process. To achieve this goal, technologies operating in the back-end, in the dependency injection (DI) and in the control inversion (IoC) model found in the AngularJS framework, were proposed to adapt to the Node.js. In this way, it was possible to develop a complete application using the same language and the same development model. The work was implemented based on the functionality of the latest frameworks on the market, using well-known concepts and technologies of Javascript. The biggest challenge was to elaborate the DI containing the main methods of the original approach. Results obtained through experiments with specialists demonstrated the framework reduced the learning curve, optimized the reuse process and provided associated technologies customization.