Foo Hack » nodejs http://foohack.com Isaac Schlueter on Web Development Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:20:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en Simple Node Server http://foohack.com/2009/12/simple-node-serve/ http://foohack.com/2009/12/simple-node-serve/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:09:00 +0000 Isaac http://foohack.com/?p=140 ...Read More]]> Here is an example of a very simple lighttpd/nginx-style web server written in NodeJS.

I’ve called it simple-node-server or “sns” for short, and you can fork it on my github account.

There are a lot of folks building SSJS clones of Django and WSGI and Rack the like. However, Python and Ruby have blocking IO, and even while they have the capacity for asynchronous behavior, it’s not the default.

I believe that, in order to get a really good JavaScript application framework, and cultivate new development in this green field, we must start with what we have, and iterate until it is closer to the ideal. I am skeptical that we’ll be able to get there by cloning the productions of synchronicity, no matter how sophisticated they may be.

It is possible today to build a web server in a day, in a flexible dynamic language, which can serve an alarming number of requests per second, by embracing asynchronous architecture.

Let’s play: simple-node-server

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