A Glimpse of Hopjs

International audienceHop.js is a multitier programming environment for JavaScript. Itallows a single JavaScript program to describe the client-side and theserver-side components of a web application. Its runtime environmentensures consistent executions of the application on the server and onthe client.This paper overviews the Hop.js design. It shows the JavaScriptextensions that makes it possible to conceive web applicationsglobally. It presents how Hop.js interacts with the outside world. Italso briefly presents the Hop.js implementation. It presents theHop.js web server implementation, the handling of server-sideparallelism, and the JavaScript and HTML compilers