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node.js A quick tour 15.02.2011 (v4)

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About • Felix Geisendörfer • Berlin, Germany • Debuggable Ltd

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@felixge

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File uploading & processing as an infrastructure service for web & mobile applications.

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Core Contributor & Module Authornode-mysql node-formidable

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Audience?

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Server-side JavaScript

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Server-side JavaScript• Netscape LiveWire (1996)• Rhino (1997)• 50+ plattforms since then

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What was the problem?• Slow engines• Lack of interest in JS until ~2005• Better competing plattforms

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Why JavaScript? 3 Reasons

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#1 - The good parts

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V8 (Chrome)SpiderMonkey (Firefox) JavaScriptCore (Safari) #2 - JS Engine Wars Chakra (IE9) Carakan (Opera)

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#3 - No I/O in the core

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Nodes goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs.

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Node.js• Created by Ryan Dahl• Google’s V8 JavaScript engine (no DOM)• Module system, I/O bindings, Common Protocols

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Installing$ git clone git://github.com/ry/node.git$ cd node$ ./configure$ make install

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Hello World$ cat test.jsconsole.log(Hello World);$ node test.jsHello World

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Ingredients libeio libevc-ares V8 http_parser

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Philosophy• Just enough core-library to do I/O• Non-blocking• Close to the underlaying system calls

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Non-blocking I/O

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Blocking I/Ovar a = db.query(SELECT A);console.log(result a:, a);var b = db.query(SELECT B);console.log(result b:, b); Time = SUM(A, B)

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Non-Blocking I/Odb.query(SELECT A, function(result) { console.log(result a:, result);});db.query(SELECT B, function(result) { console.log(result b:, result);}); Time = MAX(A, B)

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Non-Blocking I/O• Offload most things to the kernel and poll for changes (select, epoll, kqueue, etc.)• Thread pool for anything else

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Single Threadedvar a = [];function f() { a.push(1); a.push(2);}setTimeout(f, 10);setTimeout(f, 10);

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Single Threadedvar a = [];function f() { • [1, 1, 2, 2] ? a.push(1); a.push(2);} • [1, 2, 1, 2] ?setTimeout(f, 10); • BAD ACCESS ?setTimeout(f, 10);

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Single Threadedvar a = [];function f() { • [1, 1, 2, 2] a.push(1); a.push(2);} • [1, 2, 1, 2]setTimeout(f, 10); • BAD ACCESSsetTimeout(f, 10);

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API Overview

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CommonJS Modules$ cat hello.jsexports.world = function() { return Hello World;};$ cat main.jsvar hello = require(./hello);console.log(hello.world());$ node main.jsHello World

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Child processes$ cat child.jsvar spawn = require(child_process).spawn;var cmd = echo hello; sleep 1; echo world;;var child = spawn(sh, [-c, cmd]);child.stdout.on(data, function(chunk) { console.log(chunk.toString());});$ node child.js"hellon"# 1 sec delay"worldnn"

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Http Server$ cat http.jsvar http = require(http);http.createServer(function(req, res) { setTimeout(function() { res.writeHead(200); res.end(Thanks for waiting!); }, 1000);}).listen(4000);$ curl localhost:4000# 1 sec delayThanks for waiting!

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Tcp Server$ cat tcp.jsvar tcp = require(tcp);tcp.createServer(function(socket) { socket .on(connect, function() { socket.write("Hi, How Are You?n> "); }) .on(data, function(data) { socket.write(data); });}).listen(4000);$ nc localhost 4000Hi, How Are You?> Great!Great!

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DNS$ cat dns.jsvar dns = require(dns);dns.resolve(nodejs.org, function(err, addresses) { console.log(addresses);});$ node dns.js[ 8.12.44.238 ]

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Watch File$ cat watch.jsvar fs = require(fs);fs.watchFile(__filename, function() { console.log(You changed me!); process.exit(0);});$ node watch.js# edit watch.jsYou changed me!

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And much more• UDP • Buffer• Crypto • Script• Assert • EcmaScript5 ...

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Suitable Applications

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Suitable Applications• Singe-page apps• Real time• Crawlers

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More Applications• Async chaining of unix tools• Streaming• File uploading

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Interesting projects

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Package management

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Web Frameworks• Express.js (Sinatra clone)• Fab.js (Mind-bending & awesome)

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DOM• node-htmlparser• jquery• node.io

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WebSockets Socket.IO

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1171 modules in npm

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Ready for production?

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Ready for production?• 0.4.2 was released on March 3rd• API has settled down for most parts• Very few bugs, but YMMV

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Things that suck

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Things that suck• Stack traces are lost at the event loop boundary• Utilizing multiple cores requires multiple processes• V8: 1.9 GB heap limit / GC can be problematic

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Community

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Benevolent Dictator For Life Ryan Dahl

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Community• Mailing list (nodejs, nodejs-dev)• IRC (#node.js)

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Hosting

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Questions?✎ @felixge / felix@debuggable.com

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Bonus Slides

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Speed

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Speedvar http = require(’http’)var b = new Buffer(1024*1024);http.createServer(function (req, res) { res.writeHead(200); res.end(b);}).listen(8000); by Ryan Dahl

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Speed100 concurrent clients1 megabyte responsenode 822 req/secnginx 708thin 85mongrel 4(bigger is better) by Ryan Dahl

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Speed• NGINX peaked at 4mb of memory• Node peaked at 60mb• Very special circumstances by Ryan Dahl

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Questions?✎ @felixge / felix@debuggable.com