Dr. Nodelove
or how I stopped worrying and learned to love JS
This talk will not...
- Convince you JS is awesome
- Convince you node.js is awesome
- Serve you cake
This talk will...
- Explain what node.js is exactly
- Explain why matkins thinks it's awesome
- Create lots of questions
Every node.js talk seems to want to apologize for JavaScript.
I won't. JavaScript is great.
(It's easy to avoid the parts that aren't)
What even is node.js?
But wait, there's more
I'm not one to drop names, but...
Everything (I/O) is (or should be) a stream
(This is why rxjs and redux will likely beat promises)
What does that mean? ...