Node Up! Server side JavaScript FTW!

Change of plans! We will eventually test our app but realized that this will be a lot easier if we have a backend up and running (which we need to test, too!). So lets get down into some server side JavaScript!

Forget about Java, Rails, PHP, ASP.NET or whatever else you are used to, it is time meet NodeJS (http://nodejs.org/)!

Like last time we will do some live coding covering:

What's Node and why should I use it? Basic server side programming NodeJS (http://nodejs.org/api/) 101 CommonJS modules Web applications with Express (http://expressjs.com/) Persistent storage with MongoDB (http://www.mongodb.org/) and Mongoskin (https://github.com/kissjs/node-mongoskin) User registration and login