Getting Started With Node.js and mongoDB

 

• “Evented I/O for V8 Javascript” – http://nodejs.org

• Application engine for “scalable network applications”

• Really freaking fast:

• One process, zero* threads

• (Almost) no blocking

• High concurrency with low overhead

• No thread swapping or context switching 

• Applications must be designed from the ground up to not block on I/O, CPU-intensive work, etc.

 

 

• A full-stack web framework (a la Ruby on Rails)

• But! you can get there:

• ExpressJS: (http://expressjs.com/ ) (Web framework with MongoDB support built in - similar to Sinatra)

• http://github.com/senchalabs/connect (Rack-like middleware for Node and Express)

• haml.js: http://github.com/visionmedia/haml.js (Pure js implementation of HAML)

• Great at sending large static files concurrently. (use nginx.)

• Buffer implementation in recent versions improves this dramatically: http://nodejs.org/jsconf2010.pdf

• Completely non-blocking.

• CPU-intensive stuff will still block you (do it in a worker process).

• Some system calls (executed in a thread pool)

• Great together! Both:

• speak Javascript

• understand JSON documents

• are freaking fast.

• So, what should you build?

• You can build: Standard n-tier web applications

• Great way to learn mongoDB and Node

• Go build a blog engine! (Everyone does.)

• Lots of libraries to help you get started: ExpressJS, Connect, etc.

• You should build:

• Applications requiring high throughput and concurrency

• Applications with real-time needs

• Applications with long-polling connections

• Real-time multiuser chat

• Web or log analytics (e.g. Hummingbird)

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