SPA and BFF for Cloud Foundry
summary
Argues that pairing Single Page Applications with a Backend-for-Frontends works on Cloud Foundry and shows a working service, K5 Playground, that generates React/Flux SPAs and Node.js BFFs from OpenAPI (Swagger) specs. The tool offers seven templates, in-browser customization (Babel-based AST transforms), code generation under MIT, and connectors for common services, producing deployable CF apps in about 30 minutes to 2 hours. Demonstrations show build artifacts pushed separately (static front end + Node BFF) and runtime config provided via environment variables.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 1:06iPhone and REST API revolution
- 2:58Front-end and API basics
- 7:53React and Flux explained
- 12:26SPA and API ecosystem growth
- 15:09BFF concept and benefits
- 17:05K5 Playground overview
- 21:53Customization with Babel
- 24:35Motivations behind the project
- 27:29Q&A session
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