{"id":418,"date":"2012-08-15T21:36:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T21:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garysieling.com\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2012-08-15T21:36:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T21:36:26","slug":"first-philadelphia-node-js-meetup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/first-philadelphia-node-js-meetup\/","title":{"rendered":"First Philadelphia Node.JS Meetup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/nodejs-philly\">Philadelphia Node.JS meetup<\/a> last night hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zivtech.com\/\">Zivtech<\/a>. It was a mix of local developers at various stages in their careers. There were several informative impromptu presentations, including a demonstration of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bryanpaluch\/file-proxy-node\">file transfer using web sockets<\/a> and Node.JS and sending <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/adamvduke\/node-apn-server\">Apple IOS push notifications<\/a> from Node.JS.<\/p>\n<p>Useful libraries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/socket.io\/\">Socket.io<\/a> &#8211; use websockets to push notifications to the browser<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/meteor.com\/\">Meteor<\/a> &#8211; This is a group trying to speed up deployment by push code updates to the browser(!) &#8211; may be half baked right now but could be an interesting project to browse<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/backbonejs.org\/\">Backbone.js<\/a> &#8211; MVC style library + a history management library for twitter hashtag style URLs, to prevent refresh<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/vim-scripts\/jsbeautify\">jsbeautify<\/a> &#8211; Vim script to format Javascript<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/couchdb.apache.org\/\">couchdb<\/a> &#8211; For people who really want to do everything in javascript, this is a JSON database queried with Javascript Map-Reduce queries<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/embeddedjs.com\/\">ejs<\/a> &#8211; Javascript templating library, seems to be pretty popular<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/underscorejs.org\/\">Underscore.js<\/a> &#8211; Functional programming style collections library<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the first Philadelphia Node.JS meetup last night hosted by Zivtech. It was a mix of local developers at various stages in their careers. There were several informative impromptu presentations, including a demonstration of file transfer using web sockets and Node.JS and sending Apple IOS push notifications from Node.JS. Useful libraries: Socket.io &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/first-philadelphia-node-js-meetup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Philadelphia Node.JS Meetup&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[76,125,184,213,302,320,365,388,392,427,445,502,510,560,594],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}