NodeJS 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...
View ArticleDeploying Node Apps with Spark
This article will go through building a simple RESTful key/value store using Connect. Then I'll explain my favorite way to host apps on Ubuntu Server. This will use upstart and Spark. We'll setup the...
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Shoutbox with Grasshopper and CouchDB
This article demonstrates how a simple shoutbox can be built with Grasshopper using CouchDB for storing the shouts. It is inspired by this article on Nettuts+. I have included the design artifacts from...
View ArticleDemystifying events in node.js
Ok, here's an important thing to understand when you're working with node.js. There're lots of node objects that emit events, and you can easily find some examples on the documentation. But what's not...
View ArticleFlow Control in npm
Flow control is a popular subject in NodeJS. Since most of us learned synchronous object-oriented programming patterns in school, it can be a bit of a shift to really leverage asynchronous functional...
View ArticleHow to Install Node.js
This was the first in a series of posts leading up toNode.js Knockout on how to use node.js.I have been given permission to repost the articles from the contest here (in wheat format) for general...
View ArticleGetting Started with Express
This was the second in a series of posts leading up toNode.js Knockout on how to use node.js. This post was written by guest author and Node.js Knockout judgeTj Holowaychuk and iscross-posted on his...
View ArticleIntroduction to npm
This was the third in a series of posts leading up toNode.js Knockout on how to use node.js.npm is a NodeJS package manager. As its name would imply, you can use it to install node programs. Also, if...
View ArticleDebugging with node-inspector
This was the fourth in a series of posts leading up to Node.js Knockout on how to use node.js. This post was recorded by node-inspector author and Node.js Knockout judge Danny Coates.VideoCheck out...
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