Node.js: Callbacks are polluting your code

I have been hacking on a project in Node.js/Express.js for some time now. I am really impressed by how fast it is to code and prototype in Node, not much gets in your way. However, there is one thing I am still struggling with, the callback model of Node.js applications. It is not that it […]

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SignalRChat – Using RxJS to add live notificaitons

I have been playing around a little with Reactive Extensions for javascript and must say that I am really impressed. RxJS a port of the .NET based version which is, as they describe it on their site, “a library to compose asynchronous and event-based programs using observable collections and LINQ-style query operators.“. So what does […]

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Javascript on the server side

For the last decade javascript has been a language that has almost exclusively been run on the client side, in the web browser. But during the past year it seems like Javascript has found its way to the server side as well, to the joy of some developers while others wrinkle their nose and wonders […]

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