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Dan Jenkins

The Awesome Parts

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About me

I’m Dan Jenkins I’m primarily a Node.js developer

Been working with Node since 0.4

Founder of Nimble Ape Ltd

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Twitter @dan_jenkins Web nimbleape.com

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Node.js

Server Side Javascript

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easily build fast, scalable network applications

event-driven

lightweight and efficient

non-blocking I/O

perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices

Taken from nodejs.org

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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.

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Single Threaded

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Asynchronous

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Lightweight

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Customisable

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Non-blocking I/O

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Community Driven

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How To Get It

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www.nodejs.org

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Homebrew

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Nodesource | Chris Lea

Unofficial Apt Repos

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Awesome-ness

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Readability

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Both server side & client side

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Some people run same code client side & server side

routes & templates

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Personally, it’s just less context

switching

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npm

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95 169 Packages

94 996 Thursday (-173)94 809 Wednesday (-360)94 698 Tuesday (-471)

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Impressive

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Not really…

we build apps & modules in

different ways

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It’s like comparing apples and oranges

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Modularisation

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Small, reusable code

Small modules, greater power

However, with great power, comes great responsibility

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Testability

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Moar testing mechanismsMocha Should

Chai Sinon

Nock | Hock Supertest Istanbul

JSHint | JSCS

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Rapid

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Learning!

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Node Schoolnodeschool.io

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Node School Events Worldwide!

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Workshop Modules

npm install -g learnyounode

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howtonodehowtonode.org

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nodebots

nodebots.io

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Community

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Node Weekly & Javascript Weekly

javascriptweekly.com

nodeweekly.com

Peter Cooper Press | @peterc

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nodeup.com @dshaw

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Mailing List

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nodejs

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Stack Overflow

node.js tag

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IRC

#nodejs

irc.freenode.net

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Node Security Projectnodesecurity.io

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Build ANYTHING

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Grunt Gulp Yo

Custom

CLI Tools

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Weberversexpress restify hapi

loopback

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Websockets

socket.io engine.io

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Client Side Code

Browserify

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Node-webkit Atom-shell

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Native apps!

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Hardware & Software

Anyone can do hardware development now

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Tessel Arduino (spark core etc)

Johnny-five Beagle Bone Raspberry Pi

Xbox controllers / Playstation controllers Ar Drones     

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Thanks! Questions?

Dan Jenkins

@dan_jenkins