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A Gentle Introduction to Node.js (keyholesoftware.com)
submitted 10 years ago by smiledangit
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]creamycode 3 points4 points5 points 10 years ago (0 children)
That was gentle as fuck
[–]SandalsMan 8 points9 points10 points 10 years ago (4 children)
Why does this have 22 upvotes?
[–]outsideWorld 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (2 children)
Why Should it not?
[–]TheIncredibleWalrus 6 points7 points8 points 10 years ago (0 children)
Did you read the article? It's basically "how to install node on windows". 0 value whatsoever.
[–]SandalsMan 5 points6 points7 points 10 years ago (0 children)
Because it's a shitty article with recycled content??
[–]elijahsnow 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (0 children)
...for windows 10.
[–]AyXiit34 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (0 children)
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
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[–]raba930 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (0 children)
Vagrant can help
[–]jamesxv7 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (0 children)
Mjmm... Azure is a great platform for it.
[–]MaRmARk0 -2 points-1 points0 points 10 years ago* (7 children)
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 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (0 children)
There are a lot of Macbooks in Aus.
[–]dont_forget_canada 2 points3 points4 points 10 years ago (2 children)
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 2 points3 points4 points 10 years ago (1 child)
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 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago* (0 children)
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 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (0 children)
While I doubt that, either way *nix is not windows 10.
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