An Introduction to Geddy
This was the fifth in a series of posts leading up toNode.js Knockout on how to use node.js. This post was written by geddy author and Node.js Knockout judge Matthew Eernisse.Geddy is a modular,...
View ArticleNode.js and MongoDB
This was the sixth in a series of posts leading up toNode.js Knockout on how to use node.js. This post was written by 10gen and is cross-posted from their blog.10gen is the corporate sponsor of...
View ArticleWebsockets everywhere with Socket.IO
If you've stayed on top of the advances in the realtime web for the past few years, you've probably heard of different techniques aimed to reduce the latency (ie: speed) of the message exchange between...
View ArticleIntro to Jake - JavaScript build tool for Node.js
Jake is a JavaScript build program for Node.js, with capabilities similar to GNU Make or Ruby's Rake. If you've ever built projects with Rake, you'll be very at home using JakeJake has the following...
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Capturing Packets in JavaScript with node_pcap
OK, I hear you. Capturing packets is hard and best left to kernel hackers, assembly language programmers, and black hat security researches. If you just want to make things for the web using node.js,...
View ArticleTesting your JavaScript with shoulda.js
The last thing you want this weekend is to be introducing bugs at 4:30PM on Sunday as you frantically hack in more functionality. One way to avoid that risk is to write some tests for your critical,...
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Learning Javascript with Object Graphs
One of the secrets to being a super effective JavaScript developer is to truly understand the semantics of the language. This article will explain the basic elemental parts of JavaScript using easy to...
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Learning Javascript with Object Graphs (Part II)
The first article using graphs to describe JavaScript semantics was so popular that I've decided to try the technique with some more advanced ideas. In this article I'll explain three common techniques...
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Learning Javascript with Object Graphs (Part III)
Part I of this series explained basic object graphs and visually described references, closures, and basic inheritance in JavaScript. Part II compared different styles for doing object-oriented...
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Creating safe and composable 'mixins' with traits.js
In this article I will introduce traits.js, a small library to define, compose and instantiate traits. Traits are reusable sets of properties and form an alternative to multiple inheritance or...
View ArticleNode.js and Redis Pub-Sub
This is the 7th in a series of posts leading up to Node.js Knockout on how to use node.js. This post, cross-posted from GitHub, was written by James Bracy, founder of Redis To Go. Redis To Go is a dead...
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Realtime Performance Visualizations using Node.js
This article outlines how to create a realtime heatmap of your syscall latency using HTML5, some great node modules, and DTrace. It was inspired by talk that Bryan Cantrill and Brendan Greg gave on...
View ArticleHow To Module
UPDATE:This article was written for Node v0.4.1 and is no longer applicable. As of node.js 0.6.3 NPM comes pre-installed.These are some basic steps for writing a NodeJS module.Most of the suggestions...
View ArticleFun Putting Node on Mobile Devices
This article will walk you through creating an Ubuntu image that can be chrooted inside a mobile device like the recently released TouchPad. Once the Ubuntu environment is setup we'll learn how to...
View ArticleA Simple Blog with CouchDB, Bogart, and Node.js
Update: By request I have posted a gist of the app.js using MongoDB instead of CouchDB. This gist also serves as a beginning example for how to use non-promise-based APIs with bogart.In this article,...
View ArticleManaging module dependencies
Following this discussion on the node.js mailing list about managing module dependencies, I thought it's worth sharing some pointers on that here.Using NPM to bundle your module dependenciesIf you're...
View ArticleEasy HTTP Mock Testing with Nock and node-tap
One of my first node.js libraries was nano: A no fuss CouchDB client based on the super pervasive request. In foresight that was a good idea, even though there's a ton of clients for CouchDB none of...
View ArticleAsynchronous Control Flow with Promises
A Promise is an object that represents the result of an asynchronous function call. Promises are also called futures and deferreds in some communities.Goal of this ArticleThe goal of this article is to...
View ArticleTesting Private State and Mocking Dependencies
During Christmas I've been working on Testacular and found some tricks how to make my testing life easier. It's nothing special at all, just a simple way how to access private state of a module and how...
View ArticleUnderstanding process.nextTick()
I have seen quite a few people being confused about process.nextTick(). Let's take a look at what process.nextTick() does, and when to use it.As you might already know, every Node application runs on a...
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