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<h1 style="text-align: center;">learning nodejs on windows</h1>
<h2>[previously]</h2>
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<li><strong><span style="background-color: #888888;">[2015-05-mm]</span> angularjs + node tutorial</strong></li>
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<li>] # # - in the beginning, there was no intent on my part to <a href="/view/task?id=5218" target="_blank">learn node</a>,&nbsp;i knew about node, I wanted to learn more about node, someday,&nbsp;BUT i had no burning desire to&nbsp;start learning node or&nbsp;developing with node right now. My web site(s) were good, my requests were requesting, my responses were responding, life was good. Then&nbsp;I decided to learn me some angular, which is NOT node but alas, my un official node journey began as&nbsp;I started the official angular tutorial.</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] why you should never learn angularjs</strong></li>
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<li>] # # - from <span style="text-decoration: underline;">the offical angular tutoria</span>l - 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&nbsp;starts out something like this, ] install node, ] install git, ] install .... . Nothing against&nbsp;any of these <strong>powerful application development&nbsp;tools</strong>&nbsp;BUT what if <span style="text-decoration: underline;">you dont know node</span> or <span style="text-decoration: underline;">you dont&nbsp;know git</span>&nbsp;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&nbsp;with its&nbsp;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&nbsp;steep learning curve/rude awakening ...</li>
<li>] so perhap my point should be that "beginners should never learn angular with the official angular tutorial"</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] if you really want to learn&nbsp;angularjs, you really want this ...</strong></li>
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<li>] # # - Dan Whalin gets it - he created this video, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="/view/article?id=4515" target="_blank">Angular JS in 60ish minutes</a></span> - explaining what angularjs is, what it does, and then he shows you how to do what it does. <strong>In plain english</strong>. 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&nbsp;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.</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] ... and this, is how&nbsp;I learned angularjs&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] watching Dans video - making notes,</li>
<li>] working thru the official tutorial - ] spa framework ] test, ] github&nbsp;versions, /rollbacks, /</li>
<li>] looking 50+ angular examples -</li>
<li>] then building my first angular app -&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] enough about angular, what about learning node? </strong></li>
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<li>] the <a href="https://nodejs.org%20" target="_blank">official node site</a> - is where you can <a href="https://nodejs.org/download/" target="_blank">download the node .exe program for your OS</a>. Node is multiplatform and currently available for all of the major OS's including linux, OSX, windows and others.</li>
<li>] there is&nbsp;NOT a lot in the documentation here related to getting started with node, however they do&nbsp;point you to the <a href="http://nodeschool.io/" target="_blank">nodeschool</a>&nbsp;for tutorials&nbsp;which appears to have a fair number of console based tutorials to learning about the framework and its constituents.</li>
<li>]&nbsp;This site also&nbsp;contains the <a href="https://nodejs.org/api/" target="_blank">node api</a>&nbsp;reference, which documents all of the&nbsp;native node functionality.</li>
<li>] you can find more <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2353818/how-do-i-get-started-with-node-js?rq=1" target="_blank">getting started with node resources</a></span>&nbsp;listed in this stack overflow wiki,&nbsp;as well as a listing of general node resources <span style="text-decoration: underline;">here</span> (places/tech-dev-sw/framework-node/]blogs, ] tutoriasl ] ...)</li>
<li>] The following&nbsp;notes detail my experience <span style="text-decoration: underline;">getting started/learning node on a windows platform</span></li>
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<li><strong>[2015-06-dd] node on windows, what flavour would you like?</strong></li>
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<li>] tomasz janczuk - creator of the iisnode module for hosting&nbsp;node applications within iis, wrote <a href="http://tomasz.janczuk.org/2012/06/performance-of-hosting-nodejs.html" target="_blank">a good article explaining&nbsp;several differerent approaches</a> to hosting node apps on windows</li>
<li><strong>] node - without iis - </strong></li>
<li><strong>] node - within iis - running node apps within iis(or iis express)</strong>&nbsp; -</li>
<li><strong>] node - on azure</strong> - running node apps on&nbsp;microsofts azure cloud hosting platform&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[2015-05-dd] getting 'node within iis'&nbsp;up and running with webmatrix</strong></li>
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<li>] <a href="/view/person?id=257" target="_blank">Scott Hanselman</a> wrote about <a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WebMatrixAndNodejsTheEasiestWayToGetStartedWithNodeOnWindows.aspx" target="_blank">getting started with webmatrix and node</a> back in 2011-09. He points to the work done by Tomazs Janczuk (node within iis module)&nbsp;and Steve Sanderson (node application templates). Getting a node app up and running with boils down to these 4 steps</li>
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<li>x] download and install <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/" target="_blank">webmatrix &gt; v2</a> - &nbsp;(?includes&nbsp;node for iis express module?)</li>
<li>x] install node&nbsp;package into&nbsp;webmatrix using nuget package manager&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
<li>x] download and <a href="https://github.com/downloads/SteveSanderson/Node.js-Site-Templates-for-WebMatrix/Node.js%20Templates%20for%20WebMatrix.msi" target="_blank">Install Steve's node.js templates(.msi) for WebMatrix</a> - these are 3 node application templates for webmatrix&nbsp;(empty site, chat site, ...) that you can use to generate a basic site. Steve also&nbsp;produced&nbsp;a couple of <a href="http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2012/07/09/node-js-development-with-webmatrix-2-and-express/" target="_blank">tutorial videos&nbsp;on node development</a>&nbsp;using webmatrix, that are worth checking out.</li>
<li>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</li>
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<li>x] test launch site - appears OK</li>
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<li>] now the real work begins ... ] BM node /&nbsp;</li>
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<div><strong>[2015-06-01] building a real project</strong></div>
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<div>] # # - is way more fun and way more rewarding than building another 'hello world' app that does nothing.</div>
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<div>] Its also a lot more work, its a lot&nbsp;more frustrating, its a lot&nbsp;more time consuming.</div>
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<div>] Ultimately you will face many of&nbsp;the same real world challenges that you would in building a real world app that you (and others) can real ly use!</div>
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<div>] my project - project#4800 PASS -</div>
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<div>] your project - ???&nbsp;</div>
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<div>] the concepts -</div>
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<div>] the app - ] deploying to ...&nbsp;] app&nbsp;source control, ] starter templates ] node ] node packages (aka dependencies) ] testing&nbsp;</div>
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<div>] app development - ] node express, ] node jade ] node&nbsp;express modules ] getting data from&nbsp; ] &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
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<div><strong>[00:00] project-4800 -v-000-001</strong></div>
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<div>] # 5260 - x] first application setup steps, x] build app with template, x] test, x] modify ] deploy</div>
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<h2>[currently]</h2>
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<li><strong>[2015-06-05] </strong></li>
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<h2>[next]</h2>
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<li>] getJson from 3rd party api, (EXAMPLE sospep.com/qry/people?membergroup=drivers-current )</li>
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<li>] process json</li>
<li>] render json</li>
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<li><strong>] success # 3</strong></li>
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<li>] var results = app.get(url)&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>] BUT ??</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;chunk, append to body, json.parse</li>
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<li><strong>[reference] bookmarks</strong></li>
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<li>] /getting-started</li>
<li>] /node on windows</li>
<li>] /how-to make-api-request, third party, make-http/s-requests, make-http-requests-using request package</li>
<li>] /create-an-api</li>
<li>] /hosting</li>
<li>] /npm</li>
<li>] /packages</li>
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<li>/express</li>
<li>/jade</li>
<li>/request</li>
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<li><strong>[reference]</strong></li>
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<li>] <a href="http://json-schema.org/example1.html">http://json-schema.org/example1.html</a>&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[packages]</strong></li>
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<li>] <a href="http://loopback.io/">http://loopback.io/</a>&nbsp;- Powerful Node.js framework for creating APIs and easily connecting to backend data sources</li>
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<li>] <strong>LIST -&nbsp;getting started -&nbsp;resources</strong></li>
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<li>] <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2353818/how-do-i-get-started-with-node-js?rq=1" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2353818/how-do-i-get-started-with-node-js?rq=1</a></li>
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