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Thanos Polychronakis
September 10, 2014
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Intro to Node.js
An introduction to Node.js
Thanos Polychronakis
September 10, 2014
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Intro to node.js @thanpolas Nov 2016 Revised
Core Concepts
Why Node? • Asynchronous • Robust • Blazingly FAST •
Javascript / Browserify / React • Largest growth year over year • Largest frontend tool belt
Asynchronous • Event Based Development • Real Time Applications •
Single Threaded • Non Blocking I/O
Robust • Very small footprint / stack • Hundreds thousand
production installations • Easily Scalable • Every major company is deploying node ◦ Yahoo ◦ Paypal ◦ eBay ◦ LinkedIn
Blazingly Fast • Superior V8 engine under the hood •
2x speed compared to Threaded langs ◦ PHP ◦ Java ◦ Ruby • Wins both in RPS and Response Time
Why Blazingly Fast source: http://strongloop.com/strongblog/node-js-is-faster-than-java/
Javascript & the Web • Javascript is the Lingua Franca
of the web • Huge & Growing developer pool • Minimum context switching for back / front • Websockets / Isomorphic applications
Largest Growth source: http://www.modulecounts.com/ • 95k NPM Modules • Grows
at 159m/day • Second is Maven with 73/d That was Jul 2014...
Largest Growth source: http://www.modulecounts.com/ • 351k NPM Modules • Grows
at 421/day This is Nov 2016
Largest Frontend Tool Belt
A Quick Look Under the Hood
Philosophy • No Frameworks • Small reusable libraries • NPM
• Open Source
A Typical Node Web App Your App Core HTTP ExpressJS
Middleware Pattern HTTP Request Express JS Matched Route CORS Middleware
CSRF Middleware Auth Middleware Main Task HTTP Response
Thank you! Thanasis Polychronakis @thanpolas
[email protected]
#SKGNode Meetup Group: http://bit.ly/skgnode
Slides: http://bit.ly/nodeIntro
Questions? Thanasis Polychronakis @thanpolas
[email protected]
#SKGNode Meetup Group: http://bit.ly/skgnode Slides:
http://bit.ly/nodeIntro