Jason Huggins' (founder/CTO Sauce Labs), presentation to the JavaScript Chicago Meetup on January 28, 2010. Node.js: "The first non-browser version of JavaScript you'll want to use for every-day scripting and creating servers"

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

2. CommonJS + Node =

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

4. CommonJS
JavaScript finally gets a
standard library

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

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

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

10. http://nodejs.org

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

13. 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

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

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

16. Demo

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

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

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

21. 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

22. To be continued...
;-)

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