Node.js

Node is a highly acclaimed platform that specializes in high performance, non-blocking, multi-threaded parallel processing. It is a server side JS platform; as such, it relies on the V8 Javascript interpreter, which has years of testing and development behind it, and popular libraries like Dojo.

Although my initial plan for node is as a complement to our REST service suite, There are several modules / frameworks already developed for node in the area of whole site management, templates, MVC, et all.

Node.js has event handlers, modular/OOP based development, and a module in process, Mongoose, that creates managed/ORM validation and transactional integrity for MongoDB. It is very much focused on basic low level functionality over heavy handed frameworks and from everything I've seen is performant enough to challenge all current domain holders on the net.

I am an active community organizer behind the node.js meetup - at least one of them - in the SF bay area.

Off-site resources

• Core Site
• Express with intro notes here
• IRC: freenode.net#node.js
• mongoose : an ActiveRecord ORM for MongoDb.