I think they use "Javascript" with cookies to serve you ads on teh internets.
On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 at 11:01 Stephen Price <step...@lythixdesigns.com> wrote: > What are you doing?! JavaScript hasn't passed the "Tested by Greg Keogh" > certification. You shouldn't be in there touching that stuff! > > You've only yourself to blame. Don't poke the angry bear. > > On 21 Nov. 2016 6:01 am, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Folks, although I've been insulting JavaScript for years, I have always > liked scripting. I decided to install node.js and run the tutorials on how > to make a REST service. There are lots of tutorials, many of them > contradictory or incomplete, or the documented steps don't work as > expected. After confusion in the npm command when you need to *init* or > *install* or use --save I got the express package installed. Then the > express.cmd file which generates the app skeleton is not found, but later > found two folders deep under .bin, and when you run it you don't know which > folder should receive its output. > > I finished up with what might be a skeleton JS app web server comprising > 403 files in 98 folders (and I haven't even installed all the packages they > mention). It seems to have installed a *views* folder even though I have > no "views" in a rest service, containing .jade files which I've never heard > of, but searches reveal it's another JS library for templates. There a > multiple templates libraries available and it looks like jade is now being > phased out. I eventually run "node myserver.js" and it says it's listening > on http://:::8081 but it's not responding and tcpview indicates that > nothing is listening on that port. > > So after 3 hours of installing, reading, generating, fiddling and futzing > I finished up with a gigantic morass of files and folders that don't even > serve "hello world". I thought VS2015 might have JS project support, but it > doesn't seem to (am I missing something?). Do I have to install another > product like Code (or similar) to get a JS project IDE? > > I'm afraid all this has simply hardended my opinion that the whole > JavaScipt culture and ecosystem is a lunatic asylum. > > *Greg K* > > > -- David Connors da...@connors.com | @davidconnors | LinkedIn | +61 417 189 363
