Welcome to HowToNode.org
How To Node is a blog featuring projects and tutorials relating to the Node.js project.This article will describe how the blog works. Teach a few node concepts and describe how to contribute new...
View ArticleControl Flow in Node
One of the unique aspects of programming in an async framework like node is the ability to decide between which function will run in serial and which will run in parallel. While there are no built-in...
View ArticleControl Flow in Node Part II
I had so much fun writing the last article on control flow, that I decided to play around with the feedback I received. One thing in particular I want to talk about is the good work inimino is...
View ArticleDeploying Node.js With Upstart and Monit
So you like Node.js? You want to deploy it?If I heard two "Yes"'s, then you are in the some boat as me, and being in that boat feels really really vulnerable. Like the kind of vulnerable you would feel...
View ArticleUsing HAML templates in JavaScript
One of my favorite libraries when I was doing ruby development was the HTML templating language HAML. For those of you who haven't yet been enlightened, it's an alternate syntax for XML that results in...
View ArticlePrototypal Inheritance
In almost all modern programming languages we use the concept of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) to help manage the complexity of today's software. The biggest challenge in modern software is in fact...
View ArticleControl Flow in Node Part III
While working on my quest to make async programming easier, or at least bearable, I discovered that often in programming you work with a set of data and want to do things on all the items in that set...
View ArticleBlog rolling with mongoDB, express and Node.js
Article and Code updated by loarabia (Larry Olson). Article and Code updated by Toby ClemsonIn this article I hope to take you through the steps required to get a fully-functional (albeit...
View ArticleNodeJS for everyday things
Everyday things:Those little programs you write quickly to get something done like counting pages in a text document.Page countingRecently I was writing an essay and I needed to calculate a page count....
View Article"Do" it fast!
Now with the release of Node v0.1.30 there is even more need for a library like Do. While working with the node community to decide on the best alternative to node promises, we decided that it's best...
View ArticleNode + Redis = Fun
node brings asynchronous, evented I/O to the server. Redis gives you a blazing fast database with support for strings, lists and sets. Both Redis and Node.js follow certain patterns, Redis for...
View ArticleTasks and Prompts -- Implementing Simple Work Queues
Sometimes all you really need is orderly execution not blocking I/O to get the job done. Tasks and prompts is a light weight implementation of the work queue design pattern.Implementing Simple Work...
View ArticleWhat is "this"?
Most people that learn JavaScript are coming from a background in another language. This brings with it a view of how the world works that may be different from how it really works in JavaScript. For...
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Facebook Connect with Node
A big part of building a new web application is repurposing common patterns, one such pattern is the ability for users to sign in and out. One way of solving this quickly is by using Facebook Connect....
View ArticleHello Node!
In programming literature it has become the standard to create a hello world program as the first example. This article will go through a few simple hello world type examples with everything from...
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The Step of the Conductor
There have been several async management libraries proposed and written. I'm guilty of at least three of them. The reason for this proliferation of code is that they're all trying to solve a very real...
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Volcano Wheat
Announcing the release of a new engine for howtonode.org, Wheat! Also in honor of those stuck in Europe trying to get to jsconf, the background is a photo of the icelandic volcano.VolcanoGerman air...
View ArticleCreating Custom Modules
Node implements CommonJS Modules 1.0. Node's full API doc. explains their use thoroughly, but can be a bit tricky to get started.This tutorial explains the why and how you can use Node's module system...
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Just Connect it Already
Now that the core APIs of node are really starting to stabilize, I'm moving my attention to helping stabilize the framework scene. One of the things I found really neat from Ruby was the Rack server...
View ArticleWhy use "closure"?
One of the greatest features of the JavaScript language is closure. I've discussed this concept some in the "What is This?" article. There I was explaining scope and context. Today I wish to explain...
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