Posts tagged “node.js”

Starting with nodejitsu.com

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Node.js, an amazing new platform to create scalable network applications. It is sponsored by Joyent. Joyent on it’s turn, is a global cloud computing and systems software provider. They work together with Nodejitsu, to create the best node.js platform as a service or node.js hosting. At the moment Nodejitsu is still in public beta, and [...]

Node.js getting started tutorial

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In this tutorial I am going to guide you around in working with Node.js! Get started with node.js Create a hello world app Use modules Get started with node.js Note: This tutorial is assuming you use Windows as your operating system. Go download the latest Windows Installer. Install it. You can go the node console [...]

What & why node.js

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Node.js, what is it??? Node.js is a software system designed for making brilliant webservers that can host scalable (rich) internet applications in an event-driven way. Why event driven (versus thread-based)? What do we mean with this? The webservers we are used to know, like Apache, IIS are thread-based. As soon as you start communicating with [...]