My co-workers ran in to the same problem once they started using node.js for a project (it's a chat server!) All the examples out there are very "hello world".

My co-workers ran in to the same problem once they started using node.js for a project (it's a chat server!) All the examples out there are very "hello world". Even the chat server library that we attempted to use as a foundation for the chat server had never been used in a production environment. But they got it all working and it runs fine.