There's a great interview with our own Matt DeGennaro by Paul Krill of Infoworld that came out a few days ago. The topic is Tungsten.js, our awesome framework that 'lights up' the DOM with fast, virtual-DOM-based updates, React-style, and can be integrated with Backbone.js and pretty much whatever other framework you want. It's spiffy, it has a logo,
we do it github-first, and we're getting a lot of mileage out of it at Wayfair. Matt mentions the templating aspect of our composite system: we use server-side PHP, including Mustache templates, and then our client-side pages, also including Mustache templates as needed, get dynamic updates via Tungsten.js. That works great for us because Mustache has implementations in both Javascript and PHP, among many other languages.
What's that you say? The PHP implementation of Mustache is not fast enough for you? Well, we've got you covered! Adam Baratz just put up a blog post yesterday on a server-side optimization that's been working well for us. We use John Boehr's excellent PHP mustache extension, which is written in C++, and is much faster than vanilla PHP Mustache. Inspired by another snippet of PHP/Mustache code, we've even added lambdas to that, as Adam explains. I had to do a double-take the first time he explained that to me. As far as I can tell, the PHP community, of all groups of web programmers, is the least likely to care about lambdas in particular, and any kind of functional programming in general. And yet, we're finding lambdas very useful for our globalization efforts, and we're starting to use them for other things as well.
We're still working on a date, but Adam, Matt and Andrew Rota will be giving a talk on all of this at the Boston Web Performance Meetup, hosted at Wayfair, in the near future.
