(2013-11-01) Winer Aws Sdk Javascript

Dave Winer sees the launch ("preview") of Amazon Web Services SDK for JavaScript as important for a grid of Single Page Application-s that can now talk to Web Service API-s without requiring centralized scaling.

*If an app running in the browser, written in JavaScript, needs to talk to a web service like Twitter, Facebook, Evernote, etc -- you have to write a server app to act as a proxy, because it's not possible for the JS code to directly call the service. This makes building an app more costly because it's more complex, but even more important, it makes it necessary to scale the app. Every user costs more money, thus forcing you to either raise money from investors or sell access to the users to advertisers.

Then a little over a year ago, Drop Box did something amazing. They basically sucked the functionality of the Proxy Server into dropbox.com, making it unnecessary to create an in-between server... And that's how we built our Fargo outliner, and that's why it performs great no matter how many people use it.

Theoretically, it (the AWS SDK) does for their web services, what Dropbox did for theirs. The claim is that you can call directly to their servers to do the kinds of things you used to need a proxy for.

I created a new bucket, s3.scripting.com, put my app in the bucket, added a CORS configuration, and ran it. *

Tech Crunch says: This means developers can now build JavaScript apps that can create and popular S3 buckets, for example, and query Dynamo D B tables without the need to access these services through any server-side code.

See related

• Un Hosted 2011-01-11-Unhosted
• No Back End http://nobackend.org/
• Socket Hub https://github.com/sockethub/sockethub
• Remote Storage http://remotestorage.io/

I'm struggling to define UseCase-s for this.

• Meta issue: each user would need an Amazon S3 account
  • Not too many non-dev people have these
  • This isn't free (after the 1st year).
• Dave could have Fargo work with Amazon S3 instead of Drop Box.
• Any dev can build and give away a Single Page Application that either
  • needs storage or other Amazon Web Services - e.g. Drop BoxBasedWiki
  • needs a Proxy Server to use some 3rd party API (e.g. EverNote, a Thirty7 Signals WebApp)
• ??