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Deployd

REST Easy with Deployd

Boydlee Pollentine @boydleep

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What is Deployd?In a nutshell…

Deployd allows you to design, build and scale API’s for web and mobile apps in

minutes.It’s free, and open source.

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It even comes with a full dashboard system to allow you to create and manage your collection

API’s, create Events and insert/edit data records.

It’s built on top of Node.JS and MongoDB so you know it’s going to be fast, and

scalable.

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Create RESTful API’s through design…

Deployd is built around a series of REST calls that let’s you create “CRUD” collections (GET, DEL, PUT, POST).

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The Deployd Dashboard

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Scripted Logic through Events…

It uses “Events” for each of the REST methods to allow you to intercept calls

and inject your own business logic code.

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Events Logic Screen

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Access Other Collections & Join

Results…

You can use the built-in DPD library to access other collections in your Deployd database and script business logic based

on those queries…

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Accessing Collections via DPD

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Full User login, logout and creation support

out of the box…

You can use the built-in “user” collection type to automatically manage your

system logins, logouts and user creations.

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You can restrict access to certain

REST calls by throwing “cancel”…

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As well as throwing errors, determining if a property has changed

& more…

protect() = don’t allow updates for this propertyprevious() = object containing previous item valueschanged() = informs if a property item was updated

hide() = hides a property in your REST responseerror() / errorif() = adds an error message to the

response

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Use Modules to perform tasks that Deployd doesn’t already do…..

There’s a number of Deployd modules already available for sending e-mail and get files from

Amazon S3, amongst other things.

They’re based on Node Packages, so you can re-use any Node.JS package with NPM!

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There’s a tonne of examples at Deployd.com

There’s plenty of sample apps at Deployd.com that show what you can do

with the system, including integration with AngularJS and other Node.JS based systems.


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