Node Dump
Over the last couple of months, it’s gotten hard to ignore the growing chatter about Node.js. Node is an evented Javascript framework built on Google’s open source v8 engine, with similarities in design to Twisted and Eventmachine, among others. Here’s a quick dump of links for future reference.
- Video and slides from a presentation on Node by creator Ryan Dahl at JSConf.
- Node repository and issue tracker.
- Node API documentation.
- Simon Willison’s blog post: “Node.js is genuinely exciting”.
- Rick Olson’s “Node.js for My Tiny Ruby Brain”.
- Felix Geisendörfer’s slides from a Berlin Javascript user group.
- Node related projects on github. 169 repositories and counting, including a couchdb interface, some web frameworks, testing frameworks, and a JSON-RPC tooklit.
- Node.js mailing list.