Will the service ever process data server side?

[interfasys]

Right now the client is responsible to fetch the data, process it and then sync it with the cloud.
Will sencha.io ever offer server-side processing?
Something like fetching data into stores and then merging and sorting it before making it available to the client.
Doing this in the client is too time consuming as soon as there are more than 2 sources.

[merrells]

We're thinking about it. Tell us more about your scenario...

Where is the data located that you want to get into the system?
Is it in a database server?
What kind of database server?
In an enterprise?
In a cloud service?
Would a server-side API help you get your data into the system?
A REST API?
A Java/J2EE API?
A Javascript/Node.js API?

If you'd rather not say publicly, then you can email me directly at merrells at sencha.com

John

[interfasys]

I was thinking of any mash-up requiring data from several public REST APIs.

Let's say you want to aggregate 5 Twitter streams containing 20 elements. One hundred items would need to be re-ordered based on the timestamp and it would probably be faster and more memory efficient to just send 25 items at a time of that re-ordered store from sencha.io than to try and do it all on the client with the spinning wheel driving users crazy.
Asking for more on the client would get the next 25 items and at one point the server would need to ask for more data from the APIs.
The client could also filter out some streams, in which case the server would have to build a new dataset since the client doesn't have all the data.
I was thinking of using node.js either locally or remotely, but sencha.io could be a better solution.

[merrells]

Would something like YQL meet your needs?

John

[interfasys]

It would, yes

[sencha-noob]

Simply providing additional APIs for common server-side languages. That way we can create a server "client". Any changes to the shared data can be mirrored on our own servers or updated as business logic requires, synced back to the clients via the cloud, and all good.

Is there a road map or plan to do any such thing?

Is running Ext JS on a server with node js supported with IO as a fallback?

Thanks