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Ask HN: Examples of applications built with Node.js?

• maushu 16y ago
  You could try the Projects / Applications section @ http://wiki.github.com/ry/node/ http://wiki.github.com/ry/node/
• pierrefar 16y ago
  A very cool one: real time website analytics: http://demo.hummingbirdstats.com/ http://demo.hummingbirdstats.com/ http://rdelsalle.blogspot.com/2010/05/real-time-web-analytics-using-nodejs.html http://rdelsalle.blogspot.com/2010/05/real-time-web-analytic...
• bootload 16y ago
  one place to look is github ~ http://github.com/search?type=Repositories&language=javascript&q=nodejs http://github.com/search?type=Repositories&language=java... and here's one to start with ~ http://github.com/neerajdotname/node-chat-in-steps http://github.com/neerajdotname/node-chat-in-steps
• jashkenas 16y ago
  Here's a little Node.js/CoffeeScript application I worked on for a contest at a conference: Site: http://apiplayground.org http://apiplayground.org Source: http://github.com/jashkenas/api-playground/blob/master/src/app.coffee http://github.com/jashkenas/api-playground/blob/master/src/a... The source is interesting because it demonstrates something that you can't do easily with a regular Rails/Django app: nonblocking asynchronous calls to remote APIs, with synchronous responses to the ajax request.
  • demet8 16y ago
    I like it....
• javajunky 16y ago
  http://howtonode.org/express-mongodb http://howtonode.org/express-mongodb
• dreur 16y ago
  In fact, what would be a use case of Node.js? I know it is a rather interesting tech but other than that what do you/would you use Node.js for?
  • thenduks 16y ago
    Being 'interesting tech' is a pretty good reason to experiment/learn something in my book. But besides that: - You get to write JavaScript on your back-end and your front-end. - It's evented (like Twisted, EventMachine, etc) which has proven popular/robust/fast recently (think FriendFeed). - It handles insane amounts of requests/second (due to non-blocking IO and V8 awesomeness among other things). - Did I mention you get to write more JavaScript? :) - It makes it pretty easy to implement servers for other protocols than just straight vanilla http -- for example WebSockets implementations and so on.
  • superk 16y ago
    I'm hoping to use Node as my defacto replacement for all server side development.
• kelvinjones 16y ago
  http://transloadit.com/ http://transloadit.com/ The developers wrote about using node on their blog: http://debuggable.com/posts/parsing-file-uploads-at-500-mb-s-with-node-js:4c03862e-351c-4faa-bb67-4365cbdd56cb http://debuggable.com/posts/parsing-file-uploads-at-500-mb-s...
• jorangreef 16y ago
  Here's an offline-capable web application and underlying "network-straddling" framework running on Node: https://szpil.com https://szpil.com Node is great for handling many concurrent clients. It extends the V8 interpreter with excellent low-level APIs: Posix, Tcp, Http, DNS. If you need to share Javascript code between client and server, Node is the best server-side Javascript environment you could choose to use.
  • c00p3r 16y ago
    What about ffi access? Could I load libmysql.so and use javascript wrapper around its functions or it must be implemented 'in pure Javascript'? ^_^
    • silentbicycle 16y ago
      It would probably block node, so you're better off running it in another process and using the nonblocking IPC.
• transmit101 16y ago
  Here's my account of using NodeJS in http://mixlr.com http://mixlr.com: http://rfw.posterous.com/how-nodejs-saved-my-web-application http://rfw.posterous.com/how-nodejs-saved-my-web-application
• samdk 16y ago
  The Node.js IRC channel displayed as a live Wargames-like map: http://wargamez.mape.me/ http://wargamez.mape.me/ It was discussed a while back on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477084 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477084 This source is on GitHub here: http://github.com/mape/node-wargames http://github.com/mape/node-wargames Also, Node Knockout (http://nodeknockout.com/ http://nodeknockout.com/, a 'build a node app in 48 hours' competition) is happening at the end of August, and I expect some cool stuff to come out of that.
• cmelbye 16y ago
  GitHub uses it for their download links to get an archive of a repository. There's a blog post about it somewhere.
  • dho 16y ago
    http://github.com/blog/678-meet-nodeload-the-new-download-server http://github.com/blog/678-meet-nodeload-the-new-download-se...
• urza 16y ago
  Multiuser Sketchpad by Mr.Doob http://mrdoob.com/projects/multiuserpad/ http://mrdoob.com/projects/multiuserpad/ http://mrdoob.com/blog/post/701 http://mrdoob.com/blog/post/701
• revorad 16y ago
  R-Node - http://www.squirelove.net/r-node/doku.php?id=start http://www.squirelove.net/r-node/doku.php?id=start
• soli 16y ago
  my little multi rooms chat http://chat.solisoft.net http://chat.solisoft.net
• secos 16y ago
  http://whatcrackin.com http://whatcrackin.com is a weekend project so I could keep tabs on who was where during SXSW this last year. node.js + google maps + faye comet library