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Agenda• Why Node.JS?

o Why yet another server framework?• What is it?

o Asynchronous IO and the Evented Model• Hands On

o Let’s write some codeo How to nodeo Package, frameworks and toolso Latest features

• Q&A

JavaScript on the ServerPros

• It’s JavaScript – it’s the best!• It’s fast and easy to scale• One language to rule them

allo Share code across

client/servero Never write serialization

code again – it’s all JSON• Never debug multithreaded

code again

• More?

Cons• It’s JavaScript – is it even a

real language?• Async programming – can

be unfamiliar and hard• Nested callback hell• Single process doesn’t

scale across cores

• More?

ORIGINSWhy yet another server framework?

Evolution of Socket Servers• In the beginning was CGI

o A new process per request• Worker Pool Model

o Dispatch requests to persistent worker pool• To infinity and beyond

o The C10k problemo The race for high throughput and low latency

Thread Pool Model

responsesrequest queue

thread poolthread 1

thread 2

thread 3

thread 4

thread n

concurrency = # threads

Worker Thread Efficiency

wait… wait… wait…

route, parse requestform db query

parse db resultform web service query

process results

form response

db query web servicequery

log to disk

wait… wait… wait…

wait… wait… wait…wait… wait… wait…

Relative I/O Latency

CPU cycles

L1 cache 3

L2 cache 14

RAM 250

disk 41 000 000

network 240 000 000

Relative

next room ~5m

across the street ~20m

next block ~400m

Earth circumference

distance to the Moon

IS THERE A BETTER WAY?

Asynchronous I/O1. Start I/O and return (non-blocking)2. Perform other tasks3. When I/O completes, process the result

• Handle requests in a single thread• Popular examples: nginx, lighttpd

Node.JS in 5 words

Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript

Evented Model

eventqueue

eventloop

single-thread

user space

I/O done

network

file system

other

internalthread pool

Async Callbacks – Look Familiar?setTimeout(function() {    console.log("time's up")}, 1000); console.log('hello')

while (true) {}

HANDS ONLet’s write some code

“Hello, World!”var http = require('http') http.createServer(function(req, res) {     res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'})    res.end("hello\n") }).listen(9090)

Static HTTP Servervar http = require('http')var fs = require('fs') http.createServer(function(req, res) {     fs.readFile('index.html', function(err, data) {        if (err) {            res.writeHead(500)            res.end()        } else {            res.end(data)        }    })}).listen(9090)

Let’s codeWriting a simple blog

Module System

base64.jsvar encoding = 'base64‘ // locals are private exports.toBase64 = function(s) {    return new Buffer(s).toString(encoding)}

app.jsvar b64 = require('./base64') var a = b64.toBase64('JQueryBulgaria')

Error Handling• Asynchronous Callbacks and Exceptions• Dude, where is my stack?• Cannot debug across event loop iterations

• Async callback error code convention• First callback parameter is error object

fs.readFile(path, function(err, file) { if (err) { // handle error } //...})

“Do, or do not. There is no try.”

• Reconsider the conventional wisdom of exception handling• Exceptions are cleaner, more elegant and…

wrong

• Hidden control flow and Corrupt State• Just because you don’t see a code path doesn’t

mean it doesn’t exist

• New generation of languages shun exceptions (like Go)

Callback Hell – the Modern GOTO

AvoidingThe Callback Pyramid of Doom

• Keep it shallow• Name your anonymous functions• Avoid nesting

• Use a functional programming helper module• async, underscore (both server and client)

• Other alternatives• Promises• Fibers

Web App Frameworks• Node.JS is powerful

o Full control over HTTP servero But most of the time you’ll use a web

framework• Web App Frameworks like ExpressJS

provide:o Routingo Body parsingo Session and Cookie Managemento Templatingo Static File Server, Logger and many more

ExpressJS – Hit Countervar express = require('express')var app = express(); app.use(express.cookieParser());app.use(express.cookieSession({secret: "dG9wc2VjcmV0"})); app.use(function(req, res) {    var sess = req.session    sess.hits = sess.hits || 0    sess.hits++     res.json({ visits: sess.hits })}); app.listen(80)

Questions?

res.setHeader(“Content-Type”, “text/plain”)res.write(“valentin.kostadinov@gmail.com\n”)res.end(“Bye!”)

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