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Installing and setting up Node.js
Daniele Morgantini edited this page Jul 29, 2013
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Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
To install Node.js in your OS, you can follow this guide.
RTwUP needs some Node.js' libraries to work.
These libraries are:
- express, a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single, multi-page and hybrid web applications;
- socket.io, which aims to make realtime apps possible in every browser and mobile device, blurring the differences between the different transport mechanisms;
- node_redis, a complete Redis client for Node.js.
It is possible to develop Node.js applications using Eclipse as IDE. You can install nodeclipse plugin.