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I thought the same way for a long time but there's some vibrant development happening in Austin from what I hear. They also bought Strongloop[0] a while back, so the developers from aqui-hires have to go somewhere. [0]: https://strongloop.com/

A bit of background: it's the first company from TJ [1], one of the creators of Express JS [2] and a collaborator to Node.js [3]. I've been following TJ's work for a while :) [1] https://medium.com/apex-software/announcing-apex-software-inc-5008c454… [2] https://strongloop.com/strongblog/tj-holowaychuk-sponsorship-of-expres… [3] https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3e52b#.k4lo4…

Seems like a great product to quickly get started with a mBaaS in a powerful cloud like AWS. The concept looks really similar to StrongLoop's loopback [0] with a big difference: vendor lock-in. I like the openness that StrongLoop is bringing on this front... IMO the best solution is one that allows you to move your containerised API from cloud to another cloud. That being said, having this as an option in AWS is pretty cool and potentially time-saving. I'll probably give it a shot soon. [0] https://strongloop.com/node-js/api-platform/

http://strongloop.com is good, they have regular postings about node.js

The comparison page highlights that Zone.js is better than promises because of long stack traces [1], but most promise implementations already have that [2]. I'm confused, that seems to be the only comparison to promises. Edit: Conceptually it seems the same as promises. The main difference seems to be that they've added hooks [3] into the pipeline, and they duck punch the core API to intercept errors. Bluebird has solved this without duck punching using `Promise.promisifyAll(require("fs"))` [4]. I would love to see a write up on Zone.js's forks, because the article could of trivially been rewriten to use promises. [1] http://strongloop.com/strongblog/comparing-node-js-promises-trycatch-z… [2] https://github.com/kriskowal/q#long-stack-traces [3] https://github.com/btford/zone.js/#zonefork [4] https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird

StrongLoop has a few good videos to help you get a fundamental understanding of what node.js is and how it works, highly recommend spending a few minutes watching these: http://strongloop.com/developers/videos/#a-video-intro-to-nodejs-funda… http://strongloop.com/developers/videos/#a-video-intro-to-how-node-wor… For professional consulting, training and certification, check out http://strongloop.com/node-js-consulting/strongexpert/ as well.

A few of my favoriates from my RSS reader (in no particular order) include: - http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/ I love reading anything by Patrick McKenzie because he writes about incredibly valuable things, usually focusing on how to make sales, lifecycle emails, running his companies, and other general start-up related information. You might recognize him on HN as patio11 - https://blog.cloudflare.com/ CloudFlare has really excellent content and often writes about SSL/TLS related topics, which personally interest me. They have good technical explanations of SSL/TLS vulnerabilities and discuss how they provide SSL to all of their customers. Also, they discuss how they handle massive scale and other interesting things. - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/category/week-in-review/ I often find really good articles linked from the AWS blog. I like to stay current on the latest/greatest features and improvements which AWS puts out there and the Week in Review posts are often easy to skim and see if a linked article is worth reading in its entirety. - https://codeascraft.com/ Etsy's engineering blog is fantastic. I am always blown away at the passion that comes through from their posts. They seem to have a really sharp set of devs over there and I just enjoy reading their stuff. I especially enjoy the quarterly performance review posts, which show graphs about latencies throughout their stack. - https://strongloop.com/ The StrongLoop blog has some really great content for NodeJS…

People who want to ruthlessly enforce their personal version of political correctness (Bryan Cantrill in particular, and Ben's employer Issac Roth, who seems to have competed with Bryan in a no-I-am-the-bigger-asshole contest) forced an important core committer out because he tried to enforce accepted commit policy. This is a particularly aggressive brand of feminism, one that I have mostly seen in the USA. It seems to be mostly dictated by people pushing through their changes based on their ideology at any cost, by branding anyone who opposes them as discriminatory oppressors. The number of people I have heard saying stuff like "It was a politically sensitive PR, of course it should have been merged" is surprising. In fact, I would strongly recommend rejecting all such politically sensitive PRs on the basis that they are deliberately controversial, and asking the submitter politely to put their changes in a PR with more significant contributions that they submit to the project. Relevant links: [1] Original pull request: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015 [2] Bryan's "I am going to fire Ben, even though he isn't my employee. Fired. Did I say fired yet?" blog post: http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun [3] Issac Roth's "We'll fire Ben if he doesn't learn grammar. Haha, j/k." blog post: http://strongloop.com/strongblog/collaboration-not-derision-in-the-nod…

I can't explain the lack of repo activity, but Strongloop did publish an Express 5 article recently: https://strongloop.com/strongblog/moving-toward-express-5/

StrongLoop is excited to be part of today's launch of the Node.js Foundation! Here's the backstory on how the foundation came to be: https://strongloop.com/strongblog/announcing-the-node-js-fou....

What about https://www.joyent.com/blog, https://strongloop.com/strongblog/, www.brendangregg.com/blog? Too devops-y?

http://strongloop.com/strongblog/ . Check out the various blog sections for Node, API and performance tips

GoDaddy seems to be really into Node lately: http://strongloop.com/strongblog/godaddy-api-platform/

A bit off topic, but how easy is it to set up NW.js to just go looking for a index.html in a specific location? Say sitting next to an exe in windows in the the app folder in OSX. I was thinking I'd like to try and get my web app in Steam but don't really want to mess around with building Chromium ect ect. Edit: just read this and I think it answered my questions. http://strongloop.com/strongblog/creating-desktop-applications-with-no…

For many workloads that's fine, but it sounds like some people have found that using the OS socket handling doesn't distribute very evenly among processes in some cases: http://strongloop.com/strongblog/whats-new-in-node-js-v0-12-cluster-ro… Edit: more concise explanation, in the context of SO_REUSEPORT: http://lwn.net/Articles/542718/

The link is surprisingly light on details and doesn't even link to the actual release announcement: http://strongloop.com/strongblog/arc-node-js-api-announcement/

Strongloop has this statement: http://strongloop.com/strongblog/position-on-io-js/

> our misuse of the Express.js API was the > ultimate root cause of our performance issue That's unfortunate. Restify is a nice framework too, but mistakes can be made with any of them. Strongloop has a post comparing Express, Restify, hapi and LoopBack for building REST API's for anyone interested. http://strongloop.com/strongblog/compare-express-restify-hapi-loopback…

(Downvoters of parent, please stop, it's a perfectly reasonable comment.) While you're correct that JS can now be used to write Mac applications without an Obj-C wrapper, that's not really the point of this. Anyway, you can already write Mac applications in JavaScript. And iOS applications! This has been true since iOS 7 and Mavericks. http://strongloop.com/strongblog/apples-ios7-native-javascript-bridge/ You can build double-clickable "applets" in AppleScript and JavaScript, but the OSA interface isn't really made for app development, just automation. However, they do expose all Cocoa and Obj-C APIs to JavaScript, so anything is possible! They even do a demo of a standalone temperature converter at the end of the WWDC session. https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2014/#306

Thanks! Please also check out http://strongloop.com/strongblog/full-stack-javascript-isomorphic-loop… LoopBack model APIs can be run inside the browsers too and they are backed by local storage and/or remote data sources. Isomorphic model!

Agree. We try to solve the problems progressively. The connected model support is a foundation to those features. See http://strongloop.com/strongblog/defining-and-mapping-data-relations-w… Basically, we build models that relate to each other, partition the data graph with links, and expose them as REST APIs that can be used to navigate and aggregate the information from various data sources.

I am also considering to use Parse but I am still tempted to use StrongLoop (http://strongloop.com/mobile-application-development/loopback/)

For those who don't know the background of the story: [1] http://werd.io/2013/gendered-pronouns-in-software-a-quick-primer [2] http://strongloop.com/strongblog/collaboration-not-derision-in-the-nod… As said in [2]: If Ben can’t learn, we’ll fire him. [Edit: See comment below. This is not meant literally.] that seems like the result.

Well there is this: http://strongloop.com/strongblog/apples-ios7-native-javascript-bridge/

For comparison have a look at Strongloop's starter project (production ready) http://strongloop.com/products

So all this concept is new to me. I've skimmed over it. So, everyone is saying turbolink is just like pjax: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax There is also something interesting I've seen before in Java & Scala. It will run your code and render it automatically in the browser. If the other parts of the code is not finished it will later send it to be rendered to the web page. It happens in a single url path and it is not a single page application. Does anyone know what this is called? Edit: I figured it out, by using playframework you do this by send a chunked response by streaming it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7IYY08Bb_4 So you can stream chunks in node as well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11906198/node-js-write-http-respons… Strongloop: https://strongloop.com/strongblog/streaming-chunked-html-node-js-data/