intronodejs

To open the presentation:

• Open index.html in your browser

NPM Packages Suggestions

• Grunt: Task Runner. Really useful for background tasks and init tasks for your project.

• Async: Higher-order functions and common patterns for asynchronous code

• Express: Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework

• lodash: A utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras. (Faster version of underscore)

• socket.io: node.js realtime framework server

• mocha: simple, flexible, fun test framework

• hapi: HTTP Server framework. Lighter and faster than express.

• coffee-script: Unfancy JavaScript

• pm2: Production process manager for Node.JS applications with a built-in load balancer

• chai: BDD/TDD assertion library for node.js and the browser. Test framework agnostic

• winston: A multi-transport async logging library for Node.js

Benchmarks

• Node vs Apache: http://zgadzaj.com/benchmarking-nodejs-basic-performance-tests-against-apache-php

• Node vs Rails: https://github.com/alexeypetrushin/web-frameworks-benchmarks

• https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2013/11/22/node-js-at-paypal/

Best Practices

http://www.joyent.com/developers/node