http://nodeschool.io/ On Dec 16, 2013, at 4:51PM, Orthoducks <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to learn NodeJS. My background (most recently) is writing web > applications in PHP, with some JavaScript mixed in. My objectives are (1) to > learn to write simple web applications in NodeJS, (2) to be able to read > NodeJS code to help me document services that my company develops, and (3) to > contribute to an ongoing NodeJS open source project. > > I'm working my way through Chapter 1 of Node Cookbook, by David Mark > Clements, one of the books that was highly rated on the site where I go for > recommendations. I'm starting to wonder "Why are we here?" The chapter is > titled "Making a Web Server," and it contains exactly what the title promises. > > If I were teaching a web development language, I'd want to start by treating > the web server as a black box and teaching how to write an elementary web > application. Working with the web server would be an advanced topic. Readers > would be better equipped to understand it after they had some experience with > the language, and many would not want to bother with it at all until they > needed it to solve a real problem. > > I don't think I'm saying this because I'm looking at NodeJS as if it were > PHP. PHP treats the server as a separate component because it's > infrastructure, best kept out of the way unless needed. NodeJS treats the > server as a part of the application, for reasons which I expect I'll > appreciate in due time, but it's still infrastructure; that's a function of > what web applications do, not of what language they're written in. > > What's going on here? Am I somehow unclear on concept? Or have I simply > chosen the wrong book? > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
