It’s evented asynchronous non-blocking I/O build ontop of V8. So we have all the performance gain of V8 which is the Google JavaScript interpreter. Since the JavaScript performance race hasn’t ended yet, you can expect Google to constantly update performance on V8 (for free). We have non-blocking I/O which is simply the correct way to … Read more
This is misunderstanding of the definition of web server — it should only be used to “talk” with clients. Heavy load tasks should be delegated to standalone programs (that of course can be also written in JS). You’d probably say that it is dirty, but I assure you that a web server process stuck in … Read more
Check out the edge.js project I started (http://tjanczuk.github.com/edge). It provides a mechanism for running .NET and node.js code in-process. Edge.js allows you to call .NET code from node.js and node.js code from .NET. It marshals data between .NET and node.js as well as reconciles the threading models between multi-threaded CLR and single threaded V8. Using … Read more
The semantics of setTimeout are roughly the same as in a web browser: the timeout arg is a minimum number of ms to wait before executing, not a guarantee. Furthermore, passing 0, a non-number, or a negative number, will cause it to wait a minimum number of ms. In Node, this is 1ms, but in … Read more
Synchronous vs Asynchronous Synchronous execution usually refers to code executing in sequence. Asynchronous execution refers to execution that doesn’t run in the sequence it appears in the code. In the following example, the synchronous operation causes the alerts to fire in sequence. In the async operation, while alert(2) appears to execute second, it doesn’t. Synchronous: … Read more
I realize that this may not be an exact answer to your question, but I figured I would put my 2 cents worth in as I doubt to many people have tried this. I got it to work by created a managed wrapper using mixed mode C++. There are other ways to do it, but … Read more
If you are looking for an authentication framework for Connect or Express, Passport is worth investigating: https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport (Disclosure: I’m the developer of Passport) I developed Passport after investigating both connect-auth and everyauth. While they are both great modules, they didn’t suit my needs. I wanted something that was more light-weight and unobtrusive. Passport is broken … Read more
You need to manually create a symlink /usr/bin/node. Shortcut for bash compatible shells: sudo ln -s `which nodejs` /usr/bin/node Or if you use non-standard shells, just hardcode the path you find with which nodejs: sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node Later edit I found this explanation in the link you posted There is a naming conflict … Read more
Update: Joyent now has their own guide. The following information is more of a summary: Safely “throwing” errors Ideally we’d like to avoid uncaught errors as much as possible, as such, instead of literally throwing the error, we can instead safely “throw” the error using one of the following methods depending on our code architecture: … Read more