Introduction to Node.js

How can you achieve blazing fast server-side performance, seamlessly reuse your code across browser and server, and support massive concurrent connections without having to deal with the headaches of multithreaded coding? In a word: Node.js.

Node.js is an event-driven I/O framework for the V8 JavaScript engine on Unix-like platforms. It is intended for writing scalable network programs such as web servers.

In this 2 hour long workshop, JavaScript expert Spencer Tipping will teach you the basics of node.js as you develop a simple (but surprisingly sophisticated), highly-scalable web application that will open your eyes to the power of asynchronous web servers and server-side JavaScript.

Free pizza and drinks!