Redis has now moved from a simple replacement for memcache to a full-blow production database for non-SQL applications. A production database must support some level of query capabilities, which in turn requires indexing. For SQL this is done for you–in...

We recently moved all client code development to node using browserify to compile and bundle javascript classes into a single file. At the same time we replaced grunt with gulp.

While making the move we found it difficult to continue...

I came across a great company called node school while searching the node community. It offers core and elective workshops for aspiring node developers. I was able to complete the core basics and pass all the tests in a...

My friend and colleague David Flajole introduced a concept of controlling incoming messages from mulitple clients with a shared, single use token. The way it works is if multiple clients submit a message at the same or near the...

All of our applications separate web front end development and delivery from the back end. Our backend services are REST only services–no templates, HTML generation, or views; just REST with JSON responses. Components common to all REST services including bootstrap,...

What started out as a simple node logger to replace more heavy-weight loggers has become our standard logger for simple scripts as well as production servers. And as of version 0.91.90, with the ability to log domain, category, and levels...

Our web applications always separate development efforts between backend services and client front end. This allows us to independently develop either back or front end then tie the two together with JSON encode REST calls.

This approach requires a separate...

Javascript is single threaded. That’s good. But to take advantage of our ever increasing multi-processor world, we need to adopt functional solutions. Thats where asynchronous operations come in.

Javascript applications that run in the browser or in node have asynchronous...

LevelDb is a key/value store written three or four years ago by engineers at Google. Since then it has been adopted by many projects including Google Chrome, Bitcoin, Apache ActiveMQ, and others. It was introduced to the node community as...

I love coding in javascript. I love how it’s flexible enough to be as expressive as you want. The power of closures used in the traditional way or simply as function pointers like in the old C days.

Javascript’s flexible...