EmpireNode 2015
who it's for
Node developers, frontend developers, backend developers, data engineers, devops engineers, desktop application developers, IoT developers
topics
ES6 import and export; JavaScript data analysis; dat for data management; graph theory recommendation engines; front-end module systems; Node and Docker microservices; Electron desktop applications; NodeBots thin clients; refactoring legacy Node code; open source social coding practices
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How Did We Get Here | Rod Vagg | 29m |
Timeline traces node from 0.10 through the io.js fork to convergence under the Node Foundation and a V4 LTS. Claims: commit activity and unique committers… | ||
| The Importance of import and export | Ben Newman | 32m |
Argues that ES2015 import/export gives live bindings that fix CommonJS pain points: eval abuse, circular dependency fragility, module.exports confusion, and… | ||
| Data Analysis with JavaScript | Nathan Epstein | 18m |
Claims JavaScript becomes viable for data analysis because of Node + npm for file I/O and packages and D3 / charting libs for visualization. Demo reads the… | ||
| Managing changes to your data with dat | Karissa McKelvey | 25m |
A git-like system for datasets that actually handles terabytes by storing a Merkle DAG of content-addressed blobs, using leveldb + abstract-leveldown for… | ||
| Using Graph Theory to Build a Recommendation Engine in Node js | Keith Horwood | 27m |
Claims a working Node js recommendation engine that replaces a slow SQL job by loading users listings and interactions (views favorites requests) into RAM as a… | ||
| Making front end modules actually work | Lin Clark | 19m |
Compares Webpack and Browserify by showing concrete trade-offs: dependency graphs become explicit and bundling produces one JS file; webpack loaders run at the… | ||
| Rapidly Developing Microservices with Node js and Docker | William Blankenship | 22m |
Concrete workflow that turns a multi‑service Node js project into runnable containers so local setup drops from hours to seconds by using Docker compose plus… | ||
| Building Desktop Applications with Node and Electron | Steve Kinney | 22m |
Electron claims desktop apps run like web pages but behave like native apps and demonstrates that by bundling Chromium + Node together, exposing modules like… | ||
| Thin Client NodeBots and the future of JS in IoT | Kassandra Perch | 31m |
A live demo shows a Twitter-driven belt and knit rose lighting up via a DigitalOcean Node server that polls #nodesash and calls a Particle cloud agent… | ||
| Refactoring the dinosaur | Suz Hinton | 30m |
A JavaScript alternative to avrdude called AVR Girl replaces the C command‑line uploader with a mostly‑JS API and nwjs desktop UI, successfully flashing the… | ||
| The Social Coding Contract | Justin Searls | 29m |
Argues that convenience breeds long-term fragility with concrete examples: Ruby apps jump from 50 gem dependencies to 75–100 and break after six months; npm… | ||
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