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Thanks for that explanation. One last question: why would you do 'jam install backbone'? Are people developing all their client-side code in the node environmen

Thanks for that explanation. One last question: why would you do 'jam install backbone'? Are people developing all their client-side code in the node environment as well? [Or, it seems like maybe node in this case is just a dependency for jam, which is simply a tool used to make all your JavaScript development easier, without introducing any extra runtime dependencies.]

chrischen 14y ago
I believe jam is targeted for the client side, similar in functionality to googles closure compiler.
quarterto 14y ago
There are two sides to Node. One is the HTTP server environment you're thinking of. The other is just as a generic JavaScript execution environment, with packages for filesystem etc..