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== Intro ==
[http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/what-is-node.html What is node?]<ref>Radar O'Reilly article from 2011 that is a good overview.</ref> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUCHr2H-7_g video with Tom Hughes-Croucher of Joyent] 

Node.js is a platform for doing network applications using [[JavaScript]] on the client and server.  Basically, it's like an Apache web server, written in C, and using the Chrome browser's JavaScript engine.  The community is well-developed and there are many pre-written 'modules'. See the [[wp:Node.js|wikipedia article]] for more.

== Parsoid Web Service API ==
https://freephile.org/node is a node.js implementation that powers the [[Visual editor]] for MediaWiki
* {{@todo}} reconstitute the node service
** {{done}} installed nodejs package (note that the package provides npm, so it conflicts with the npm standalone package) '''<code>dpkg-query --status nodejs</code>'''
** {{AI}} configure port

== Links ==

* [http://nodejs.org/ Node.js official website]
* [http://nodejs.org/api/index.html Node.js API docs]
* [http://npmjs.org/ npm] - the official package manager for Node.js
* [https://github.com/creationix/nvm nvm] - Node Version Manager.  A bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions.  Although the packaged node.js for Ubuntu 12.04 is rather old, nvm allows you to instantly use the newest version; and use multiple versions (if your projects have certain dependencies) without problem.
* [https://nodejsmodules.org/ nodejs modules]
* [http://nodeguide.com/index.html Felix's Node.js Guide]
* [http://browsenpm.org/package.json interactive cheatsheet for <code>package.json</code>]
* Learnable.com has an intro to node.js course which is valuable.
* [http://nodeschool.io/ Node School]
* [http://socket.io/#how-to-use Socket.io] a node.js module for WebSockets
* [http://expressjs.com/ Express] - a web application framework for node
* [https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb NeDB] Node embedded database similar to [[MongoDB]]
* [https://angularjs.org/ AngularJS] - a 100% JavaScript client-side templating framework that provides data binding. Not related to node.js, but useful on the client-side.
* [http://eirikb.github.io/nipster/ nipster] search for npm modules
* http://howtonode.org/ created by Tim Caswell (see https://creationix.com/)

== Front-end Build Tools ==
When doing nodejs development or [[front-end development]], you may also wish to employ some sort of build system or task runner for performing repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, linting, etc.
* While many people have been using '[http://gruntjs.com/ Grunt]'
* I like '[http://slides.com/contra/gulp Gulp]' better because it's code over configuration and more intuitive.
* Meanwhile, Andrew Krespanis of SitePoint shows a great example of how you can simply [http://www.sitepoint.com/using-gnu-make-front-end-development-build-tool/ use GNU Make for a front-end development build tool] (More on [[Make]])

== Node Happenings ==
The people of Node (e.g. [https://github.com/mikeal Mikeal Rogers]) are doing a lot of interesting things.  Like [http://jsfest.com/ JSFest] which happened in SanFrancisco 2014, or Node school.

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