Chris Sainty

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Webpack

Webpack has become my standard tooling for front-end assets in recent times. Though for all the in-depth documentation I found the learning curve steep and the number of options confusing. So I'd like to share some of what I learnt.

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Remote debug your iisnode hosted node.js app

I recently came across iisnode’s built in support for the excellent node-inspector package. My iisnode host of choice being AppHarbor, I proceeded to set up a repo and make sure it all works there.
The good news is… It does!

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Node.js Background Workers on AppHarbor

Today AppHarbor announced beta support for Background Workers, I have been eagerly awaiting this announcement as it is something I need all the time when hosting sites.

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Launching a Metro.css + Node.js site on AppHarbor

Last week I contributed a tiny piece of code to the Code52 Metro.css project. My contribution was a node script that creates a boilerplate Node.js website for you using the Metro.css styles, Express and wires up the LESS compilation.

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Getting deeper into Open Source

It’s about 8 months since my first contribution to an open source project. It was followed up minutes later by one to reverse all the accidental formatting changes I made. Damn you Visual Studio!

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Running a NodeJS server alongside your NodeJS desktop app

The node-webkit project added a new feature yesterday, one which I requested. So I feel I should put up a quick post about it and why I think it could be useful.

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Further thoughts on NodeJS desktop applications

I have been working on a more complete demo of creating a desktop app with NodeJS.

This one will use a full UI (KendoUI) and a Sqlite database to create a basic CRUD style app based on the Northwind dataset. Someone really needs to put together another (and actually well designed) standard database that people can use for apps like this.

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Creating desktop apps with NodeJS

Last week an interesting thread was started on the NodeJS mailing list.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/iy7Re33dwyU/yxwLlx1aUNMJ

Roger Wang from the Intel Open Source Technology Center posted about a new project from their team called node-webkit.

https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

node-webkit brings WebKit to NodeJS. With it, client side applications can be written with a HTML/CSS UI on the NodeJS platform. We believe the async I/O framework and Javascript language is a perfect combination for client (mobile) side applications.

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Learn Something New: Node

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.

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