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We believe in sharing knowledge. So we have assembled this growing collection of node.js how-to articles. These articles range from basic to advanced. They provide relevant code samples and insights into the design and philosophy of node itself.

docs.nodejitsu.com is an open source project and is curated by the Nodejitsu team and friends. If you have articles or ideas that you would like to contribute, we'd very much like to accept your pull request!

Usage

Read Articles, get good at Node.js

Browse /articles/ folder or http://docs.nodejitsu.com

To generate the docs

node bin/generate

To start the docs server

node bin/server

Contribution Guide

coming soon

To add an article:

• make a directory in topics for your article: mkdir articles/how-to-make-an-article (use only letters and dashes)
• next write your article: vim articles/how-to-make-an-article/article.md
• create a metadata with this data: vim articles/how-to-make-an-article/metadata.json

metadata.json

{
  "title":"What is npm?",
  "date": "Fri Aug 26 2011 03:08:50 GMT-0700 (PST)",
  "tags": ["npm", "modules"],
  "author": "nico",
  "difficulty": 1
}

Directory Structure

topics/
    article-name/ //url version
        metadata.json
        article.md //file with the real article
        assets/
            ...
    ...

Metadata Format

{
  "title":"What is npm?",
  "date": "Fri Aug 26 2011 03:08:50 GMT-0700 (PST)",
  "tags": ["npm", "modules"],
  "author": "nico",
  "difficulty": 1
}