Automate Everything

Automation

• Eliminates repetitive work
• Eliminates repetitive work
• Eliminates repetitive work
• Reduces human air
• Reduces human air error
• Eliminates repetitive work

Automation you may know

• Make
• Rake
• Ant
• Maven

Automation you may not know

But before we automate, let's talk about Node.js

Node.js

"Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices."

- nodejs.org

Node.js

• Server-side JavaScript Engine
• Single-threaded
• Runs on all major Operating Systems
• Download it at nodejs.org

Node.js is great for...

• Data-intensive applications
• Asynchronous I/O
• REST API
• Real-time applications
• Streaming
• WebRTC
• TCP Servers
• Web Sockets
• Chat Application

Node is not great for

• CPU Intensive Processing

Node Packaged Modules

Install Node Package Modules (NPM) to do all kinds of lovely things. Think Ruby Gems.

• Watch
• Sass / Less / CoffeeScript / Jade
• Live Reload
• JSHint / Lint
• Concat files
• Optimize Images
• Minify (JS, CSS, HTML)
• Gzip
• Upload to S3 / FTP 
• Deploy to AWS
•  Jasmine / Mocha / Selenium
• Page Speed insights

Node Packaged Modules

package.json - information of the application, repo, author, dependency, development dependency

#Installing module  
npm install -g http-server 

# Options:
# -g global (It might need administrator access)
# --save saves module  dependency directly to package.json
# --save-dev saves module under dev dependency

# All third party modules will be located  node_modules/

npmjs.org

+92K Modules