Environment

Take a look at the article Installing & Using the Dev Environment (coming soon) to learn how to install the basic environment with all the requirements and the basic settings.

Tools

• Git
• Geany / Notepad++
• JSDoc to generate the doc from comments

Frameworks & Libraries

##Server Side

• Node.js: JS Platform for building fast, scalable network applications
• MongoDB: Document NoSQL database, for persistency
• Node.js modules:
  • express: Web dev framework to get a nice MVC architecture
  • ejs / ejs-locals: Template engine for the views
  • socket.io: Websockets made easy, for the Server/Clients dynamic communications
  • mongoose: To interface with MongoDB
  • connect: To deal with session, to give access to identified users only
  • bcrypt: Encrypting the users passwords
  • session.socket.io: To secure the Websockets communications using the created sessions

Client Side

• JQuery: Web dev swiss knife
• Modernizr: Library to deal with browsers support
• JQuery plugins:
  • ... (coming soon)