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<li><a href="#audience">Audience</a></li>
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<li><a href="#about">About</a></li>
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<li><a href="#download">Download</a></li>
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<li><a href="#build">Build</a></li>
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<li><a href="#demo">Demo</a></li>
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<li><a href="#community">Community</a></li>
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<li><a href="#benchmarks">Benchmarks</a></li>
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<li><a href="api.html">Documentation</a></li>
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<h1><a href="http://tinyclouds.org/node">Node</a></h1>
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<p id="introduction">
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Evented I/O for
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<a href="http://code.google.com/p/v8/">V8 javascript</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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An example of a web server written with Node which responds with
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"Hello World" after waiting two seconds:
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<pre>
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node.http.createServer(function (req, res) {
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setTimeout(function () {
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res.sendHeader(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
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res.sendBody("Hello World");
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res.finish();
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}, 2000);
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}).listen(8000);
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puts("Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/");</pre>
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<p>
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To run the server, put the code into a file
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<code>example.js</code> and execute it with the <code>node</code>
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program
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<pre class="sh_none">
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% /usr/local/bin/node example.js
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Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/</pre>
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<p>
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See the <a href="api.html">API documentation</a> for more
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examples.
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</p>
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<h2 id="audience">Audience</h2>
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<p>This project is for those interested in</p>
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<ul>
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<li>server-side javascript</li>
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<li>developing evented servers</li>
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<li>developing new web frameworks</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="about">About</h2>
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<p>
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Node's goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable network
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programs. In the above example, the two second delay does not
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prevent the server from handling new requests. Node tells the
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operating system (through <code>epoll</code>, <code>kqueue</code>,
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<code class="sh_none">/dev/poll</code>, or <code>select</code>)
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that it should be notified when the 2 seconds are up or if a new
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connection is made—then it goes to sleep. If someone new
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connects, then it executes the callback, if the timeout expires,
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it executes the inner callback. Each connection is only a small
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heap allocation.
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</p>
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<p>
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This is in contrast to today's more common concurrency model where
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OS threads are employed. Thread-based networking
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<a href="http://www.sics.se/~joe/apachevsyaws.html">is</a>
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<a href="http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html">relatively</a>
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<a href="http://bulk.fefe.de/scalable-networking.pdf">inefficient</a>
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<!-- TODO needs links -->
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and very difficult to use.
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Node will show much better memory efficiency under high-loads
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<!-- TODO benchmark -->
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than systems which allocate 2mb thread stacks for each connection.
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Furthermore, users of Node are free from worries of dead-locking
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the process—there are no locks. Almost no function in Node
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directly performs I/O, so the process never blocks. Because
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nothing blocks, less-than-expert programmers are able to develop
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fast systems.
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</p>
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<p>
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Node is similar in design to and influenced by systems like Ruby's <a
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href="http://rubyeventmachine.com/">Event Machine</a> or Python's <a
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href="http://twistedmatrix.com/">Twisted</a>. Node takes the event
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model a bit further—it presents the event loop as a language
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construct instead of as a library. In other systems there is always
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a blocking call to start the event-loop. Typically one defines
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behavior through callbacks at the beginning of a script and at the
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end starts a server through a blocking call like
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<code>EventMachine::run()</code>. In Node there is no such
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start-the-event-loop call. Node simply enters the event loop after
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executing the input script. Node exits the event loop when there are
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no more callbacks to perform. This behavior is like browser
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javascript—the event loop is hidden from the user.
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</p>
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<p>
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HTTP is a first class protocol in Node. Node's HTTP library has
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grown out of the author's experiences developing and working with
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web servers. For example, streaming data through most web frameworks
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is impossible. Node attempts to correct these problems in its HTTP
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<a href="http://github.com/ry/http-parser/tree/master">parser</a>
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and API. Coupled with Node's purely evented infrastructure, it makes
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a good foundation for web libraries or frameworks.
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</p>
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<p>
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<i>
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But what about multiple-processor concurrency? Threads are
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necessary to scale programs to multi-core computers.
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</i>
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Processes are necessary to scale to multi-core computers, not
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memory-sharing threads. The fundamentals of scalable systems are
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fast networking and non-blocking design—the rest is message
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passing. In future versions, Node will be able to fork new
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processes (using the <a
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href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/"> Web
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Workers API </a>), but this is something that fits well into the
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current design.
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</p>
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<h2 id="download">Download</h2>
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<a href="http://github.com/ry/node/tree/master">git repo</a>
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<p>
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2009.09.11
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<a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/four.livejournal/20090911/node-0.1.10.tar.gz">node-0.1.10.tar.gz</a>
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</p>
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<h2 id="build">Build</h2>
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<p>
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Node eventually wants to support all POSIX operating systems
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(including Windows with MinGW) but at the moment it is only being
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tested on <b>Linux</b>, <b>Macintosh</b>, and <b>FreeBSD</b>. The
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build system requires Python 2.4 or better. V8, on which Node is
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built, supports only IA-32 and ARM processors. V8 is included in the
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Node distribution. There are no other dependencies.
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</p>
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<pre class="sh_none">
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./configure
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make
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make install</pre>
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Then have a look at the <a href="api.html">API documentation</a>.
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</p>
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<p>To run the tests</p>
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<pre class="sh_none">make test</pre>
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<h2 id="demo">Demo</h2>
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<p>
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A chat room demo is running at <a
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href="http://chat.tinyclouds.org">chat.tinyclouds.org</a>. The
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source code for the chat room is at <a
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href="http://github.com/ry/node_chat/tree/master">http://github.com/ry/node_chat</a>.
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The chat room is not stable and might occasionally be down.
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</p>
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<h2 id="community">Community</h2>
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<p>
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For help and discussion subscribe to the mailing list at
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<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs">http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs</a>
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or send an email to <a href="mailto:nodejs+subscribe@googlegroups.com">nodejs+subscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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For real-time discussion, check irc.freenode.net #node.js.
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</p>
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<p> Here are some projects/libraries which are using/for Node.js</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://github.com/fictorial/redis-node-client/tree/master">redis-node-client</a>, <a href="http://github.com/fictorial/node-json-rpc/tree/master">node-json-rpc</a> , <a href="http://github.com/fictorial/node-sandbox/tree/master">node-sandbox</a> — by Brian Hammond / Fictorial</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.nonblocking.io/2009/06/scalable-pubsub-with-nodejs.html">pubsub</a> — by Malte Ubl</li>
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<li><a href="http://github.com/ujh/frisbee/tree/master">frisbee</a> — A clone of the Disqus blog commenting system, by Urban Hafner</li>
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<li><a href="http://github.com/blackdog66/hxV8/tree/master">hxV8</a> — the haXe → javascript compiler with modifications to use node I/O. by blackdog66</li>
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<li><a href="http://github.com/ry/node_chat">node_chat</a> by ry (live demo at <a href="http://chat.tinyclouds.org">chat.tinyclouds.org</a>)</li>
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<li><a href="http://github.com/sixtus/node-couch/tree/master">node-couch</a> — a CouchDB connector</li>
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<li><a href="http://github.com/visionmedia/express/tree/master">express</a> — a Sinatra clone</li>
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<li><a href="http://github.com/waveto/node-tyrant/tree/master">node-tyrant</a> — An implementation of the Tokyo Tyrant network protocol for the Node.js</li>
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<li><a href="http://github.com/ujh/coltrane/tree/master">coltrane</a> — A try at a higher level library/framework for node.js web development</li>
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<li><a href="http://github.com/raycmorgan/vroom/tree/master">vroom</a> — A simple resource oriented web framework built on top of Node.js</li>
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<li><a href="http://github.com/creationix/postgres-js/tree/master">postgres-js</a> — Postgres protocol implemented in JS</li>
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<li><a href="http://github.com/jfd/optparse-js/tree/master">optparse-js</a> — Option Parser in JS</li>
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<li><a href="http://github.com/ry/node_postgres">node_postgres</a> — C binding to libpg (postgres)</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="benchmarks">Benchmarks</h2>
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<p>
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2009.09.06 <a href="http://four.livejournal.com/1019177.html">narwhal, node, v8cgi, thin/eventmachine</a>
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