Lets say that you want to experiment with Node.js or you want to start to leverage its awesome features but you don’t want to throw away all of your existing Apache compatible website.
Node.js is very interesting platform, it allows to unleash your internal hacker and gives a chance to join one of the fast growing developers communities in the world. For a quite long time, node.js was available only for Linux and Mac, but due to latest Microsoft contribution to project Windows is supported in a very fine way.
Have you ever need to wait for several, unrelated asynchronous functions or processes on NodeJS in order to met dependencies of a last request/method/function/etc? I’m really sure you have, and it can be a pain if you do not know how to properly handle it. The worst and common case is having each one of this nested on then previous one.
You may have used NodeJS as a web server, but did you know that you can also use it for web scraping? In this tutorial, we’ll review how to scrape static web pages – and those pesky ones with dynamic content – with the help of NodeJS and a few helpful NPM modules.
In my earlier post I explained how to expose a pdf service using ColdFusion REST api here. In that post we saw that from the client side if I will pass a html document to this service it will convert it into pdf document and will return it back to the client.
In this post I compare and contrast three ways of deploying node.js applications to Windows Azure to help you choose a method that is best suited to your requirements.
One of my favorite quotes comes from Stephen King: “You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.” I feel the same way about certain ideas.
If you've ever uploaded a considerably large video file, then you know this feeling: you're 90% done, and accidentally refresh the page - having to start all...
PaaS (platform-as-a-service) services are blooming these days (Heroku, Nodejitsu, nodester, cloudcontrol and many more). All offer some awesome features. I set out to try and set up a very simple...
For a development team that historically had a huge focus on PHP and Drupal development, big technology changes were introduced that took us out of our comfort zone.
According to the SockJS website: “SockJS is a browser JavaScript library that provides a WebSocket-like object. SockJS gives you a coherent, cross-browser, Javascript API which creates a low latency, full duplex, cross-domain communication channel between the browser and the web server”.
So I have been working on a node.js project recently, that I was hosting on Heroku. Sadly, Heroku doesn’t allow socket.io based node apps to use true websockets. So I asked my good friend Adr...
In this post I am sharing high level, general observations related to performance implications of choosing one of the two major ways of hosting node.js HTTP applications on Windows.
Sending e-mails with NodeJS is almost a breeze. Almost. First, you have to plug-in the nodemailer module than set up a transport type, load the templates, add attachments and finally send…
I have been working on a node.js project and decided I wanted to get some unit testing going . I did some research and there are a lot of test frameworks out there for node
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