Nodejs Notes - newgeekorder/TechWiki GitHub Wiki

Node version management

• the n command https://github.com/tj/n can manage versions of node.

Node Api

• https://nodejs.org/api/ documentation including file, console, http, os, stream etc.

Testing

• http://unitjs.com/guide/quickstart.html
• mocha - simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser. (BDD, TDD, QUnit styles via interfaces) http://mochajs.org

Mocha running individual tests - using the grep option to select the tests

mocha -g "Else"

Building

• Gulp - is a streaming build file for node
  • gulp recipes
• "Browserify lets you require('modules') in the browser by bundling up all of your dependencies." often used with gulp

var browserify = require('browserify');
var gulp = require('gulp');
var source = require('vinyl-source-stream');

gulp.task('browserify', function() {
    return browserify('./src/javascript/app.js').bundle()
        // vinyl-source-stream makes the bundle compatible with gulp
        .pipe(source('bundle.js')) // Desired filename
        // Output the file
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./build/'));
});

Learning

• Node for the Java Developer

Links and Ref

• Intelij Note: endure "File-> settings -> Languages and Settings -> Javascript -> Libraries" and ensure the nodejs libraries are included