[annotator-dev] NodeJS impl of Annotator Store backend

Tue Sep 23 16:33:37 UTC 2014

Nice,
Thanks for the link!

Love that Jamie's is configured for easy Heroku deployment.

I'll play with that this evening.

A couple of differences that will be fun to discuss are his use of MongoDB
instead of Elasticsearch (I wonder how many clients use the elasticsearch
raw APIs exposed by the reference backend), and what authentication he has
or is planning.
Thanks
-Willy

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Andrew Magliozzi <andrew at finalsclub.org>
wrote:

> Hi Willy,
>
> Thanks for sharing.  Jamie from Hyperstudio made a node-express-mongodb
> datastore a while back too:
>
> https://github.com/hyperstudio/MIT-Annotation-Data-Store
>
> Perhaps you two could compare notes.
>
> ~Andrew
>
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Willy Bruns <willy at entropi.info> wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>> Thanks so much for this wonderful project.
>>
>> For those of you who are interested in JS end-to-end, I've been
>> implementing the Annotator Store backend in NodeJS:
>> https://github.com/willy-b/node-annotator-store
>>
>> (I'm sure someone else has done this, but I couldn't find it :-) )
>>
>> In this public repo I am following the behavior of the reference python
>> backend pretty closely.
>>
>> This is still under development but the basic functionality (CRUD +
>> search) is there.
>>
>> See passing tests here:
>> https://github.com/willy-b/node-annotator-store/blob/master/test/PASSING_TESTS.md
>> .
>> Authorization via JSON web token is unfinished, see status here:
>> https://github.com/willy-b/node-annotator-store/blob/master/AUTH.md .
>>
>> Feel free to file bugs, requests, etc, OR to fork and add tests,
>> documentation, and bug fixes.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Willy B
>>
>> P.S. My motivation:
>> Some friends and myself are building a web service that leverages all of
>> Annotator's wonderful capabilities. Since we're using end-to-end JS for
>> rest of project and since we want to extend the annotation search APIs (to
>> add annotation similarity, clustering, etc) it felt natural to have a
>> NodeJS implementation.
>>
>>
>>
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