If you need to write modular and reusable comments, Connect could be the best solution for you. It deals with an extensible HTTP server framework for Node.js using “plugins” known as middleware. A middleware component is a plugin that gets a request and then does some processing, after which it might handle and end...
SignalR is an open source library for ASP.NET developers. It’s the equivalent of what Socket.IO is for Node.js (if you want, you can check out a comparison on Stack Overflow). SignalR can be used to provide real-time web features to your applications. Usually, if you are into Ember and JavaScript, you might be in...
In SitePoint's recent PHP vs Node.js Smackdown, Craig Buckler pitted these development disciplines against each other over a series of ten challenges, to determine which is the overall winner. As Craig notes in the article, these comparisons are always somewhat controversial. As a fun followup, we asked Bruno Šk...
The web is ever-changing technology landscape. Server-side developers have a bewildering choice of long-standing heavy-weights such as Java, C, and Perl to newer, web-focused languages such as Ruby, Clojure and Go. It rarely matters what you choose, presuming your application works. But how do those new to web develop...
JavaScript is eating the world! With it we can build web apps, desktop apps, mobile apps, games, robots, backends and more. Lots of software supports JS as an extension language for writing addons or manipulating data. Even though it has its quirks, JavaScript is here to stay, and now is a good time to learn it! This ...
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