Node seems to be everywhere at the moment. Long on my list of things to take a look at, I finally took the time to sit down with it yesterday and get it up and running and get a feel for what it does.
In the process I also took my first look at Heroku, which is the cloud hosting platform for Ruby, Node, Java etc. that AppHarbor borrows heavily from in the .NET world.
Today my toolset of choice for a quick learning session is Nancy.
Reading straight from the box
Nancy is a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .Net and Mono. The goal of the framework is to stay out of the way as much as possible and provide a super-duper-happy-path to all interactions.
Got that? Think of it as a replacement for WebForms or ASP.NET MVC.
First in my “Learn Something New” series is Knockout, a javascript MVVM framework.
Knockout is beautifully simplistic. You define a ViewModel, bind it to your UI, and away it goes keeping the two in sync. It really is beautiful stuff for a javascript heavy UI.
Today I am introducing what I hope will be a long term project for this blog, my “Learn Something New” series.
The series will be mainly focussed on web development and learning the basics of a tool or framework I did not previously know. Where possible I will be providing all the source on GitHub and links to the project up and running on a free cloud service like AppHarbor or Heroku.