JavaScript is a language that people would use without learning it first, which is by mistake that
you would not make in other language – Douglas Crockford
I’m a huge fan of Douglas Crockford, and that has a lot to do with how I learned JavaScript. Like many web developers, [...]
In 2009, rock star devs used to pimp jQuery and most web Ninjas were highly skilled at Rails. Then rails became a ghetto and jQuery became a fat wife. But in the year 2015, things have changed. Javascript has been crowned the new emperor of the interwebz after a long [...]
One of the annoyances of Node.js for development purposes is the fact that you have to restart the server everytime you make changes to your included modules. This is because Node actually caches module includes for better performance. A great workaround is using the Node Module “Supervisor“.
Supervisor will monitor all [...]
In part 2 of my node.js tutorial, we built the web server and created a dispatcher to handle the incoming client browser requests and route them to actions. In part 3 of this series, I cover refactoring our Node app into separate node modules and components. I am also introducing the [...]
After watching a few videos on thinkvitamin membership, the node.js hype finally got to me. If you haven’t heard of node.js before, it is an application framework which allows you to write server side programs using javascript. An obvious use case for node.js is as a web server and we are [...]
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