samartioli / node-basics

Node Basics

A repository for Node Basics talk at Angle Brackets 2015 conference

Slides available here

Requirements

• git
• nodejs

NPM Global

# ~/.bash_profile
export PATH=/Users/[user]/npm-global/bin:\
$PATH

# ~/.npmrc
prefix=/Users/[user]/npm-global

NPM Examples

npm install -g gulp
npm install -g json static
echo '{"language": "node"}' | json

Examples

01 Basic Server

cd 01-basic_server
node index.js

02 File System

cd 02-file_system
node index.js

https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html

03 NPM Link

cd 03-npm_link
npm link .
catFile test.txt
npm unlink

04 Shelljs

cd 04-shelljs
npm install
npm install shelljs --save
node index.js test.txt

https://github.com/arturadib/shelljs

05 Rename

cd 05-rename
npm install
npm link .
node generateDir.js
rename myModule angleBrackets
rename \(.*\)\.js \$1\.io

https://lodash.com/docs https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js https://github.com/bcoe/yargs

Debug

npm install -g node-inspector
node-inspector --version
cd 05-rename
node-debug index.js

https://github.com/node-inspector/node-inspector