An Introduction to Node.js Development with Windows Azure
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This document serves as an introduction to developing applications with Node.js on the Windows Azure platform, highlighting the benefits of Node.js, such as its speed and efficiency for real-time applications. It covers key concepts, including Node.js installation, Azure account setup, and the use of npm for managing modules. The author, a Microsoft certified solution developer with extensive software development experience, designed this document to facilitate learning about cloud service integration with Node.js.
An Introduction to Node.js Development with Windows Azure
- 1. An Introduction to Node.js Development with Windows Azure SpeakerRate - http://spkr8.com/t/11611
- 2. Who am I? I am a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and I’ve been developing software since 1979. Since 2009, I have been focused on developing mobile applications, for iPhone, Android, the mobile web, and Windows Phone 7.
- 3. What We’re Not Going to Cover • The Depth of Windows Azure • Visual Studio • Windows 8 • Git
- 4. What We Will Cover • Node and npm • Windows Azure Website • How to Deploy
- 5. Windows Azure is an open cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework.
- 6. • Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform • Version 1.0 Introduced February 2010 • Last Major Release on June 7, 2012
- 7. Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
- 8. • aka. Node • Introduced in 2009 By Ryan Dahl of Joyent • Current Version 0.6.19 • Version 0.7.12 is in preview • Selected by InfoWorld for the “Technology of the Year Award
- 9. Why Node? • It’s Fast • Minimalistic • Avoids Context Switching • Single Threaded
- 10. How To Node on Azure • Node as a Cloud Service • Node as a Web Site • Node as a Web Site with WebMatrix
- 11. Create a Windows Azure Account • windowsazure.com • click the free trial button (90 days free) • You will need a windows live ID
- 12. Installing Node • https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/ nodejs/ • Installers for Windows, Mac, and Linux
- 13. Show server1.js
- 14. Hello Node! var http = require('http'); // what is http? http.createServer(function (req, res) { res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'}); res.end('Hello Node!n'); }).listen(3000, '127.0.0.1'); console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:3000/');
- 15. Packages • Core Modules which are compiled into Node • Userland Everything else
- 16. Core Modules • http - HTTP server and client • url - utilities for URL resolution and parsing • path - utilities for handling and transforming file paths • fs - File I/O is provided by simple wrappers around standard POSIX functions
- 17. Show server2.js
- 18. npm • a command line utility (npm) • a web based registry of modules (search.npmjs.org)
- 19. Install express using npm
- 20. Userland Modules • connect • express - high performance, high class web development for Node.js built on top of connect • mongodb - port of mongodb to non-blocking JavaScript • plus many, many more
- 21. If there is something you need to do in Node, first look for a module to do it for you.
- 22. Show server3.js
- 23. Update Server on Azure
- 24. Summary Node.js is an easy to learn, high performance
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