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1. What is node.js and what does it do? Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript. To provide a purely evented, non-blocking infrastructure to script highly concurrent programs.
2. Basic concept : blocking and non-blocking [codesyntax lang="javascript"]

// blocking
result = query('select * from t');
some_function(result);

// non-blocking
query('select * from t', function(result) {
    // callback
});

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3. Amazing Video by Ryan Dahl - Introduction to NodeJS
4. Download and install [codesyntax lang="bash"]

$ wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.2.6.tar.gz
$ tar zxf node-v0.2.6.tar.gz
$ cd node-v0.2.6
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/node
$ make
$ make install

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5. Make the doc and read (optional) [codesyntax lang="bash"]

$ make doc
$ man doc/node.1

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6. Server side test script [codesyntax lang="javascript"]

// hello_world.js :
var sys = require('sys');
setTimeout(function() {
    sys.puts('world');
}, 2000);
sys.puts('hello');

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7. "hello world" [codesyntax lang="bash"]

$ /usr/local/node/bin/node hello_world.js

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8. Resources Online chat room example written in node.js : https://github.com/ry/node_chat NodeJS Quick Tour : Node-JS_Quick_Tour_V2.pdf Slides from JSConf 2010 : jsconf2010.pdf