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27 Mar

2012

Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Thou Shalt Not Deny Asynchrony

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: Node.js:

A few of weeks ago, I ran into this awesome article ?Understanding process.nextTick()? on the How To Node blog. In this article, the ever friendly Kishore Nallan shows a couple of common use cases for the process.nextTick() function of the core Node.js library. You should read this blog post three times, at the very least. […]

23 Mar

2012

Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Npm Police

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: Node.js:

Earlier this week, I ran across this incredibly helpful utility called npm-police. It analyzes all packages that are specified in a package.json file and reports which packages need to be updated. It also leaves you with a couple of suggestions on how to improve the content of the analyzed package.json file. Another great tool in […]

6 Feb

2012

Solving the upload progress bar problem–The History of Node.js

By: Jarod Ferguson Category:UncategorizedTag: Node.js:12 Comments

If you would have asked me how Node.js came to be I probably would have guessed something along the lines of a Stanford research lab. That is, until I stumbled across this youtube video ?Ryan Dahl – History of Node.js? from a Pheonix user group back in Oct 11. I intended to watch just a […]

24 Jan

2012

Introducing TrackMyRun

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: Node.js:4 Comments

I’ve been working on a small pet project for a couple of weeks now, which I named TrackMyRun. I’m quite fanatic when it comes to running, doing about 130 runs a year. Currently I’m keeping track of all these runs in a simple spreadsheet, but off course, that’s certainly not “the geek way”. Hence the […]

20 Jan

2012

Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Express Routing

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: Node.js:13 Comments

In the previous post I provided a short introduction to Express, a web development framework built on top of connect that is heavily inspired by Sinatra. For this post we?ll dive into a couple of styles for dealing with routes in Express. Express simply uses HTTP verbs for its routing API. // Index app.get(‘/runs’, function(request, […]

23 Dec

2011

Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Express

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: Node.js:1 Comment

< The list of previous installments can be found here. > There are several frameworks out there for building web applications with Node.js, one being more successful than the other. Express is probably the most popular and well known web development framework for Node.js. It?s heavily inspired by Sinatra and built on top of connect, […]

16 Dec

2011

Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Linking Local Packages with npm

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: Node.js:

< The list of previous installments can be found here. > I just wanted to share a very neat feature of npm that makes life quite a lot easier when developing libraries for Node.js. Suppose that we?re building our very own ORM library for Node.js (we all build an ORM at some point in our […]

18 Oct

2011

Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – BDD Style Unit Tests with Jasmine and CoffeeScript

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: CoffeeScript, Node.js:1 Comment

< The list of previous installments can be found here. > In a previous blog post, I already wrote about BDD style unit tests for testing Node.js modules using Jasmine. I really like the conciseness, simplicity and readability of specification style unit tests using Jasmine. But when we pour CoffeeScript into the mix, then the […]