scttnlsn: Why I’m excited about JavaScript and Node.js
I’m really excited about the web. For the first time, I am seeing it as a medium to deliver applications that rival native user experience and take advantage of the web’s distributed nature. With browsers becoming increasingly capable, applications can now be built entirely with JavaScript and run…
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LAMP Replacement: The Jason Stack
Janos stands for: JavaScript, Node.js, and a NoSQL database. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer:
It is very fortunate for JavaScript programmers that two things have become popular: JSON as a data transfer format (for web services etc.) and NoSQL databases. Both are perfect fits for JavaScript: JSON uses JavaScript syntax. Schema-less databases make things as flexible on the database side as they are on the programming language side; you get the advantages of object-oriented databases without their messiness.
Even if I’m collecting some more interesting examples of Node.js + NoSQL database, I’m still not convinced that Node’s event-oriented approach is meant to replace the Apache + Perl/Python/PHP/Ruby or the heavy lifting Tomcat + Java server side components. But I can see it used in the “small- to medium-scale” apps.
Original title and link: LAMP Replacement: The Jason Stack (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)
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TJ Holowaychuk: commander.js - nodejs command-line interfaces made easy
Commander.js is a small node.js module allowing you to define options and interacte with the user’s terminal in a simple and natural way, inspired by the Ruby library of the same name.
Features
- self-documenting code
- auto-generated help
- combined short flags (“-abc” == “-a -b -c”)
- option…
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