¡ Chris
Tankersley
¡ Doing
PHP
for
9
Years
¡ Lots
of
projects
no
one
uses,
and
a
few
that
some
do
§ TL;DR
https://github.com/dragonmantank
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3rd,
2013
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¡ Go
over
what
node.js
is
¡ What
good
is
node.js?
¡ Different
ways
to
use
it
with
PHP
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node.js
is
a
server-‐side
implementation
of
the
Google
V8
JavaScript
engine
In
broad
terms,
it
does
the
same
job
as
PHP
but
with
JavaScript
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¡ It’s
JavaScript
¡ npm
is
pretty
awesome
¡ It’s
fast
¡ There’s
a
huge
community
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¡ It’s
just
JavaScript,
nothing
fancy
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¡ Call
node.js
just
like
any
other
program
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¡ Push
something
into
a
redis
via
PHP,
and
have
node.js
listen
and
react
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¡ PHP
and
node.js
connect
to
a
redis
channel
¡ PHP
publish
something
to
the
channel
¡ node.js
gets
the
message
and
reacts
¡ Really
good
for
reacting
to
events,
but
requires
node.js
to
be
listening
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¡ Same
idea,
but
the
work
sits
there
until
someone
deals
with
it
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¡ Allows
two-‐way
communication
from
the
browser
to
the
server
¡ Most
browsers
should
support
it
¡ Use
socket.io
to
handle
old
browsers
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