Node.js

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Intro[edit | edit source]

What is node?[1]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 wikipedia article for more.

Parsoid Web Service API[edit | edit source]

https://freephile.org/node is a node.js implementation that powers the Visual editor for MediaWiki

  • Gedit.svg todo reconstitute the node service
    • Done installed nodejs package (note that the package provides npm, so it conflicts with the npm standalone package) dpkg-query --info nodejs
    • Knotes.svg configure port

Links[edit | edit source]

Front-end Build Tools[edit | edit source]

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.

Node Happenings[edit | edit source]

The people of Node (e.g. Mikeal Rogers) are doing a lot of interesting things. Like JSFest which happened in SanFrancisco 2014, or Node school.

References[edit source]

  1. Radar O'Reilly article from 2011 that is a good overview.