By Colten Rouska






v0.10.28

What?


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.

Really??







Node is only 5 years old.
Ryan Dahl

Advantages


  1. Commonality of language (javascript)
  2. Can handle thousands of concurrent connections on 1 process
  3. Models, validation, services can be shared (Client, Server)
  4. Huge community

Example Good Use Cases





JSON API's
Streaming  data
Single page apps
Unix tools/scripting
Real time applications*







* Fairly light realtime web applications

Disadvantages




  • Intensive CPU
  • http://Serve.me/content
  • Unclear code organization
    • Asynchronous code

asynchronous code 


 async1(function(input, result1) {
  async2(function(result2) {
    async3(function(result3) {
      async4(function(result4) {
        async5(function(output) {
            // do something with output
        });
      });
    });
  });
})

Packages!


 
- N ode P ackage M anager

~75,000 pkgs














using npm


package.json
 npm install <some-pkg> [--save-dev]

This will generate a node_modules/ directory with the specified packages inside.

npm install <some-package> [-g]
Install the package globally making it so it doesn't need to be in the project's package.json file. You can also use the package anywhere in your terminal.

Existing package.json?
 npm install

package.json


Used for managing custom NPM package variables
{      "name": "SomeCoolPlugin",
  "version": "9.0.0.1",
  "description": "Something cool over 9000!",
  "main": "server.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "My Good Friend",
  "license": "BSD-2-Clause"
}
Used for managing dependencies 
{  "dependencies" : {...}
  "devDependencies": {...}
}

Simple sample! 


var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function(request, response) {
  response.writeHead(200, {'content-Type' : 'text/plain'});
  response.end("helloWorld");
}).listen(8080, '127.0.0.1');

console.log("Running Server on http://127.0.0.1:8080");


helloworld

TCP server 


var net = require('net'),
    readline = require('readline');
 
var server = net.createServer();
 
server.on('connection', function(socket){
  console.log("Connected! " + socket.remoteAddress);
  socket.write("Welcome " + socket.remoteAddress);
  socket.on('data', function(message){
    console.log('Received "' + message + '". Applying mystifications.');
    message += "!";
    socket.write(message);
  });
});
 
server.listen(8081, '127.0.0.1');

TCP Client 


var net = require('net'),
    readline = require('readline');
 
var client = new net.Socket();
client.connect(8081, '127.0.0.1', function() {
  console.log('Connected');
  var rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout
  });
 
  rl.on('line', function(cmd){
    console.log("Sending: "+ cmd);
    client.write(cmd);
  });
});
Events: 
 client.on('data', function(data) {
  console.log('Received: ' + data);
});
 
client.on('close', function() {
  console.log('Connection closed');
});

Extending Functionality







To the chat client!

Who use it?




Groupon
Linkedin
Microsoft
Yahoo!
Walmart
PayPal

Resources



Why the Hell to use Node.js



Node.js in Action - by Mike Cantelon

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