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title: Enjoying my time with Node.js
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date: 2015-12-19
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#### Alternatively, I found a project to properly learn it
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A bit of background -- I've been using primarily PHP for any backend
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that I've needed to do, which while works most certainly doesn't seem
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quite right. I have nothing against PHP, however it feels a bit dirty,
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almost like I'm cheating when using it. I didn't know any other way,
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though, so I stuck with it.
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Well I recently found a project I could use to learn Node.js -- a
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Minecraft server control panel -- and I've actually been enjoying it,
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much more than I have PHP. Here's a demo of my project:
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/c0IGKEmHyOM?feature=oembed
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It's all served (very quickly) by a Node.js backend, that wraps around
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the Minecraft server and uses multiple POST and GET routes for various
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functions, such as saving files. The best part about it is how fast it
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is (obviously), but the second greatest thing is the efficiency. For
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example, in PHP, for me to implement some new thing, I'd most likely
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need to create a new file, fill in my variables and methods, and point
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my JavaScript (or AJAX) towards it. And I have no real good way of
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debugging it. However with Node.js, it's three lines of code (no
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seriously) to implement a new route with Express that will perform a
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function. Not only that, but it's *so easy to debug.* Because of how
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it's run, instead of just producing a 500 error page, it can actually
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log the error before shutting off the program, which is so much more
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useful then then old 'cat /var/log/apache2/error.log'.
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My advice to anyone looking to get into web development is *learn
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Node.js.* Not only is it a new web technology that is only increasing in
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size, but it's powerful, open with about a billion extensions, and can
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help you learn more JavaScript, a big part of dynamic content on HTML5
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websites.
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