1.
Node.js
Todd Eichel
jQuery Pittsburgh
24 March 2011

2.
Server Side JavaScript
Evented IO
High Concurrency

3.
What is
Node?

4.
SSJS

5.
Server Side JavaScript

6.
Google
Apple
Mozilla

7.
V8
Nitro
SpiderMonkey

8.
Source: http://whatbrowser.org
SunSpider JS performance benchmark

9.
Asynchronous
by nature

10.
Synchronous Asynchronous
Food Truck Food Truck

11.
Synchronous Synchronous Synchronous
Food Truck Food Truck Food Truck

12.
Asynchronous Libraries
Synchronous World

13.
Landscape

14.
Rails : CRUD :: Node : Concurrency

15.
Client Client Client Client
Rails Node
MySQL MongoDB

16.
Client Client Client Client
Node
MySQL MongoDB

17.
Push Notifications

18.
Traditional Polling Long Polling Realtime Socket
old and busted stopgap the holy grail

19.
Traditional Polling Long Polling Realtime Socket
old and busted stopgap the holy grail

20.
Quora Demo

21.
Streaming Responses

22.
Rendered Response Streaming Response

23.
Rack/Node Demo

24.
Node
Ecosystem

25.
Ruby Node
Package Manager RubyGems npm
HTTP Middleware Rack Connect
Light Web Framework Sinatra Express
Web Framework Rails ?
ORM ActiveRecord Mongoose
Realtime Connections ? socket.io

26.
Live Demos