Node.js - JavaScript Chicago Meetup

Node.js Jason Huggins @jhuggins hugs@saucelabs.com {'jschi' : Date("Jan 28, 2010")}

CommonJS + Node =

The ﬁrst non-browser version of JavaScript you'll want to use for every-day scripting and creating servers

CommonJS JavaScript ﬁnally gets a standard library

Who, What, Where, When • Started as “ServerJS” by Kevin Dangoor • January 2009

http://commonjs.org http://commonjs.org/

Node.js A fast, fun, complete JavaScript run-time environment

http://nodejs.org

Who, What, Where, When • Created by Ryan Dahl • Presented at JSConf.eu, November 2009

Getting Started • Download from nodejs.org • tar -zxvf node-v0.1.26.tar.gz cd node-v0.1.26/ conﬁgure make sudo make install node-repl

The “Big Idea”? It’s Event-based all the way down

db.query("select..", function (result) { // use result });

Gotchas • It’s new (that’s good and bad) • Step-debugging vs logging • Its REPL is great, but immature. (Compare to Python)

Adoption Path • Hear about it • Read about it • Try it • Become a fanboi

Adoption Path • ... go back to work... • ... months later... • Find a starter project

My starter project • Create a node-based command line interface to Selenium IDE’s Selenese format exporter logic • It’s implemented in JS already, but is currently only accessible through the UI

To be continued... ;-)

Node.js Jason Huggins @jhuggins hugs@saucelabs.com {'jschi' : Date("Jan 28, 2010")}

Node.js - JavaScript Chicago Meetup

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