adrianlee

Hi Nicholas,

I saw you tweet about JSX yesterday. It seemed like the discussion devolved pretty quickly but I wanted to share our experience over the last year. I understand your concerns. I've made similar remarks about JSX. When we started using it Planning Center, I lead the charge to write React without it. I don't imagine I'd have much to say that you haven't considered but, if it's helpful, here's a pattern that changed my opinion:

The idea that "React is the V in MVC" is disingenuous. It's a good pitch but, for many of us, it feels like in invitation to repeat our history of coupled views. In practice, React is the V and the C. Dan Abramov describes the division as Smart and Dumb Components. At our office, we call them stateless and container components (view-controllers if we're Flux). The idea is pretty simple: components can'

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var cluster = require('cluster'),
    app = require('./app');

var workers = {},
    count = require('os').cpus().length;

function spawn(){
  var worker = cluster.fork();
  workers[worker.pid] = worker;
  return worker;

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Node.js Fullstack MVC / REST frameworks

• http://flatironjs.org/
• http://krakenjs.com/
• http://sailsjs.org
• http://tower.github.io/
• http://derbyjs.com/
• http://www.meteor.com/
• http://compoundjs.com/
• http://geddyjs.org/
• http://www.sleekjs.com/

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Backend Development

• node.js
  • Installation paths: use one of these techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo.
  • Node.js HOWTO: Install Node+NPM as user (not root) under Unix OSes
  • Felix's Node.js Guide
  • Creating a REST API using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
  • Node Cellar Sample Application with Backbone.js, Twitter Bootstrap, Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
  • JavaScript Event Loop
• Node.js for PHP programmers

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Frontend Development

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var
  PARALLEL_CONNECTS = 10,

  http = require('http'),
  sys = require('sys'),
  connectionCount = 0,
  messageCount = 0;
  lastMessages = 0;

function addClient() {

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// Authentication middleware
// -------------------------

// Shim for DNode's current version of socket.io, 
// which cannot pass `null` references, and turning
// the mongoose model to a pure JSON object
function shim(err, doc, fn) {
  if (!err) err = 0
  if (doc) doc = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(doc))