Node.js is a server side software system designed for writing scalable Internet applications, notably web servers.
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Building an iPhone Social Network Natively [on hold]
new to the site.
I am building an iOS social network. I've got most of the front end native app developed, however have quite literally no experience working with any backend languages apart from ...
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Real-World node.js [on hold]
I am 14 years old, and have been studying web/app/software development. I am trying to learn a backend language, and am considering node.js. I have heard awesome things about it, plus I like that fact ...
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Search algorithm
I would like to create a site where users can post articles with the following optional parts:
A title
Contents (text)
Categories
Keywords
Articles will be stored in mongodb and the site will be ...
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Should I include test runner module as a dependency in my module?
My module has no dependency on its own but for running tests you need to install jasmine-node module. Should I include that module as a dependency?
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What is a reasonable way to structure relationships in MongoDB
I am also using Node - which I am not the most familiar with - if the articles/books/tutorials pertained to this also - that would help even more.
I come from a mostly MySQL background - but in this ...
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Design Pattern for Server, where application is single-page RIA
So I'm using Node and ExtJS server-side/client-side respectfully. By using ExtJS, I'm moving a lot of the presentation logic client-side. Thus, something like MVC wouldn't make sense server-side since ...
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Benchmark of asynchronous code
Asynchronous programming seems to be getting quite popular these days. One of the most quoted advantages is performance gain from removing operations that block threads. But I also saw people saying ...
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What should I learn to be backend web developer? [closed]
I want to be a web developer and because I don't want to get into designing (and stuff like that) so I thought I should become a backend developer (also more suited because of my course i.e. b.tech in ...
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Unit testing in node.js and mocking modules
I'm trying to test this wrapper to request that I made:
// lib/http-client.js
var app = require('app'),
request = require('request');
exports.search = function(searchTerm, next) {
var options ...
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Syncing chat on android device with web application
I am trying to make a chat application in android. Just a one on one chat. However I also want the chat to be synced with the web app that runs on the browser. I am confused about how to go about it. ...
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Is node.js a good fit for background processing?
I'm slowly learning node.js and have a small project I want to start. The project will have a lot of background processes (downloading data from external sites, parsing CSV files, etc.).
A big "win" ...
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Data integrity in NoSQL situations
Background
To start off, at work I work with a legacy system that, in its day, was quite spectacular, but now is ...interesting... to work with. It uses IBM (now Rocket) UniVerse as its backing ...
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How to implement a message queue over Redis?
Why Redis for queuing?
I'm under the impression that Redis can make a good candidate for implementing a queueing system. Up until this point we've been using our MySQL database with polling, or ...
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NodeJS: Freeze dependences before testing and deployment? Check in node_modules?
Suppose you have a NodeJS application.
A release could consists of multiple steps:
Automated and/or manual tests
Deployment
(if something goes wrong) Rollback to the last stable version
There are ...
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Sync csv file using nodejs
There is a remote csv file that gets updated every second or so.
I need to download it(on a Windows machine) ONCE and always sync local file with the remote one.
Obviously, downloading the whole ...
