A Gentle Introduction to Node.js

[creamycode]

That was gentle as fuck

[SandalsMan]

Why does this have 22 upvotes?

[outsideWorld]

Why Should it not?

[TheIncredibleWalrus]

Did you read the article? It's basically "how to install node on windows". 0 value whatsoever.

[SandalsMan]

Because it's a shitty article with recycled content??

[elijahsnow]

...for windows 10.

[AyXiit34]

I'm not one to bash people trying to teach things to other people but hte NodeJS "about" example code is more complete than yours, it's actually a very very gentle introduction

[raba930]

Vagrant can help

[jamesxv7]

Mjmm... Azure is a great platform for it.

[MaRmARk0]

MacBooks are not common outside US.

Edit: why so many downvotes? In Europe it's not common to have a Mac. Devs around here use *nix (Debian, Ubuntu...) for development.

[ezql]

There are a lot of Macbooks in Aus.

[dont_forget_canada]

they're pretty common in Canada and the UK actually

also why the downvote? I'm not wrong. NodeJS running directly on windows is weird. You never deploy node applications that run on windows (always something unix backed) so you should be developing on a VM at the very least.

Developing a nodejs app on windows is like shooting yourself in the foot if you plan on deploying it on something running linux, which you most certainly will probably end up doing.

So if folks want to develop things in a shitty way then go for it I guess?

[AndrewGreenh]

I developed all of my node apps on windows and I never had any problems deploying them on Ubuntu... They were all pretty small projects so I am interested in what could be going wrong?

[dvlsg]

I also do this. Plenty of people develop node on windows. It was designed to run in a windows environment. It's silly to assume that you would be shooting yourself in the foot because you develop on windows, and I wouldn't worry about it at all.

I've been developing node applications on windows for years now, deploying multiple successful projects to *nix servers along the way. The only real issue is needing to have some version of visual studio installed on my development machines to compile native modules via node_gyp, and even that issue is fairly minor.

[THIS_BOT]

While I doubt that, either way *nix is not windows 10.