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…already know and use JavaScript on a day-to-day basis?
Node.js will continue to rise in popularity due to its far reaching audience pull, but unlike the Visual Basic analogy that might be popping up into your head, Node.js is now and will continue to be leveraged to build real web apps (rather than little calculators, etc of the VB era). If you aren't looking at Node.js yet, it's high time you did.
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Nuno Job's NanoCouch Node.js driver for CouchDB:
After doing development like this for a while some obvious patterns started to emerge, as well as some code duplication. So the idea of nano was born: Build the minimal abstraction possible that allows you to use CouchDB from nodejs while preserving stream#pipe capabilities.
With the Node Knockout event just over the horizon, I thought it would be interesting to show how easy it is to build a really powerful SMS application using Node.js and CouchDB.
(Our sister platform, Tropo , is a sponsor of the event as is CouchBase, makers of the CouchDB software used in this demo.)
If you want to use SMSified in your Node Knockout application, simply sign up for an account (it's free). Then just install the SMSified Node.js module:
The Node.js app is probably the most complex, mostly because the file open/file write portion is a little heavier than it is in the other languages: var http = require('http'); var fs = require('fs');
var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) {
request.addListener('data', function(data){ json = data.toString(); });
request.addListener('end', function() {
var sms = JSON.parse(json); var sender = sms.inboundSMSMessageNotification.inboundSMSMessage.destinationAddress; …
Listen to the recording of the Node.js Panel Discussion webinar .
Overview
Following up from our previous post we're posting up a quick how-to for using Node.JS , CloudFoundry and MongoDB together.
Our end goal here is to build a simple web app that records visits and provides a reporting screen for the last 10 visits.
Tools We Need
Sign up for a Cloud Foundry account .
Local installation of MongoDB & Node.JS .
…CouchDB-based geospatial data repositories, like Baltimore .
It's built on the awesome new SMSified platform from Voxeo (disclaimer, I work there) and uses a Node.js module I built for working with the SMSified API .
As always, dear readers, any comments or feedback is welcomed.
Do head on over to the project website and check it out!
…conversation with Matt Ranney . Matt is quite well known in the Node.js community as he's a contributor to Node and is the author of the widely-used node_redis library (Aside from being an extremely talented developer, Matt is an all around great guy, and had recently rolled out a version of Voxer using Riak as the primary backend store. As such, we had been chatting quite a bit during the conference as I made it a point to get his feedback on Riak …
…build-in roles (like Rails app server, MySQL server, load balancer or Node.js app server) or by creating custom definitions. Thanks to the power of Chef, Scalarium can automate anything scriptable.
Using the provided auto scaling mechanisms many clients scale down machines during the night and boot them over the day. This saves a lot of money as you only pay for what you are actually using.
Our team is based in Berlin and apparently trusted so much that we are the save-keeper of …
We're experimenting with NodeJS and Backbone.js on our Mobile Site
Most of our data is served from MySQL, where we have a classic Master/Slave set-up.
Cassandra to serve the Dashboards (you can hear Sean talking about that at Rug_B ).
Ruby also comes into play in how we manage our infrastructure. As we continue to grow we'll be adding many new machines. To prepare for this we use Chef for our configuration management.
For testing purposes, …
I just published the source of what we've extracted out of whats been at the core of LivelyCouch.
The result is a tiny generic library that gives you only a single function - "spawn".
It allows you to spawn a Javascript function in a new Node.js instance and returns you an EventEmitter to communicate with it.
You can find more details on github:
https://github.com/livelycode/spawn.js
Hopefully later tonight I will find some time to explain what drove us …
