] # # - in the beginning, there was no intent on my part to learn node, i knew about node, I wanted to learn more about node, someday, BUT i had no burning desire to start learning node or developing with node right now. My web site(s) were good, my requests were requesting, my responses were responding, life was good. Then I decided to learn me some angular, which is NOT node but alas, my un official node journey began as I started the official angular tutorial.
[00:00] why you should never learn angularjs
] # # - from the offical angular tutorial - dont get me wrong, it's NOT a bad tutorial, its actually a pretty nifty tutorial that demonstrates a number of important concepts. The thing is - that is starts out something like this, ] install node, ] install git, ] install .... . Nothing against any of these powerful application development tools BUT what if you dont know node or you dont know git you might be thinking, hmmm, what am i getting myself into and you could be right. Now you can likely get through the tutorial by simply following along with its step by step instructions, but when you step out into the real world of developing your own apps and having to understand better/more of how each of these products work, you could be in for a bit of a steep learning curve/rude awakening ...
] so perhap my point should be that "beginners should never learn angular with the official angular tutorial"
[00:00] if you really want to learn angularjs, you really want this ...
] # # - Dan Whalin gets it - he created this video, Angular JS in 60ish minutes - explaining what angularjs is, what it does, and then he shows you how to do what it does. In plain english. You can see by the 1M+ views that I'm not the only person who thinks Dan got it right. The linked page includes the video and my summary notes on the video, i also added a link to Dans Udemy course on angularjs if you want to take it to the next level.
[00:00] ... and this, is how I learned angularjs
] watching Dans video - making notes,
] working thru the official tutorial - ] spa framework ] test, ] github versions, /rollbacks, /
] looking 50+ angular examples -
] then building my first angular app -
[00:00] enough about angular, what about learning node?
] there is NOT a lot in the documentation here related to getting started with node, however they do point you to the nodeschool for tutorials which appears to have a fair number of console based tutorials to learning about the framework and its constituents.
] This site also contains the node api reference, which documents all of the native node functionality.
] you can find more getting started with node resources listed in this stack overflow wiki, as well as a listing of general node resources here (places/tech-dev-sw/framework-node/]blogs, ] tutoriasl ] ...)
] The following notes detail my experience getting started/learning node on a windows platform
[2015-06-dd] node on windows, what flavour would you like?
] node - within iis - running node apps within iis(or iis express) -
] node - on azure - running node apps on microsofts azure cloud hosting platform
[2015-05-dd] getting 'node within iis' up and running with webmatrix
] Scott Hanselman wrote about getting started with webmatrix and node back in 2011-09. He points to the work done by Tomazs Janczuk (node within iis module) and Steve Sanderson (node application templates). Getting a node app up and running with boils down to these 4 steps
x] download and install webmatrix > v2 - (?includes node for iis express module?)
x] install node package into webmatrix using nuget package manager
x] create new website using template - select the node application template you wish to use - thats it, your first node app on windows - with iis is up and running
x] test launch site - appears OK
] now the real work begins ... ] BM node /
[2015-06-01] building a real project
] # # - is way more fun and way more rewarding than building another 'hello world' app that does nothing.
] Its also a lot more work, its a lot more frustrating, its a lot more time consuming.
] Ultimately you will face many of the same real world challenges that you would in building a real world app that you (and others) can real ly use!