Real time Web Applications without Backend Code, well is it possible? Yes, through Horizon

“Backend mostly deals with scalability, content management, structure, and other aspects that require frequent changes. In the web development process, behind the scene there is logic, which, can make or break the applications. Proper functioning of logic is very necessary in order to provide best user-experience.

We all know that the transition from static to dynamic conception played a major role in enhancing the user-interaction level. The mechanism under dynamic design is not as rudimentary as that of static. Backend developers are striving hard to keep up with constant up gradations that never seems to stop.

Real-time applications are all about the frequency of change that occurs, so the need to deal or manage the backend designs can be onerous for developers. Suppose, think if there is an opportunity to avoid backend code, well, developers are surely going to love it. But, now the question is who is going to provide that opportunity? Horizon, a new open-source backend will be an answer for that.

Introducing Horizon

As explained earlier, Horizon is an open-source backend which allows us to scale the applications without any backend code. From rapid prototyping to deploying, the horizon provides developers a greater leverage than never before. Now, another question may arise, how it is possible? Well, on doing an anatomy of horizon, the following features can be found

• Backend Server– A direct interaction with underlying database, well, how good does this sound? Then no need for the developers, to slot with backend code. Built with Node.js and RethinkDB, the backend server supports user authentication, real time data streaming, data persistence and permissions.
• JavaScript Client Library– The developers are allowed to subscribe the live-updates, store JSON documents in the database, and perform queries through frontend.
• Command-line Tool– Through this tool, the developers are allowed to deploy the applications to cloud.

Even after going through all these features, for some, the concept of Horizon may still not be clear. So, let me help you with that through a simple question. How will it be if you can access live updates from the front-end, while the application is still running on the browser? If you have understood the question, then there is no doubt that you have conceived the concept of Horizon.

Horizon = Rebuff Backend Coding

Horizon through providing powerful APIs allows the developers to create high-scale dynamic, real-time applications. But once the scalability reaches beyond the capability of the given API, a necessary path will be provided for further up gradations. Say no to Backend code, yes, it is the message given by Horizon for the developers who are confronting with web server and database issues.

Horizon is making application scaling a breeze for the developers, and no more they have to face the backend code if they are going with this new found approach.