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h2.blog-post-title First Blog Post
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p.blog-post-meta July 21st 2015 by Mitchell
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|My first blog post introduces this website and the motives behind it.
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|I discuss setting up a Node.js webserver for the first time and
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|my experiences with it thus far.
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|I have had this site up for awhile now, but I've decided to turn it
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|into a blog style website, more or less. I first started working on the site
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|because I wanted to learn new web development tools, in this case, Node.js and MongoDB.
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|I already had previous experience with SQL databases and other server side scripting
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|languages such as PHP and JSP, but I heard good things about Node.js and I wanted to
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|familiarize myself with a NoSQL database. At first, Node.js was a bit confusing to work
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|with and figure everything out. Now that I am starting to get the hang of Node and MongoDB
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|I am enjoying them more and more.
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h2 Setting up Node.js for the first time
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|There are multiple ways to get up and running with Node. Node uses "modules" and has some
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|that are already built in. Others need to be installed with the NPM package manager, which
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|will become your friend. I am going focus on installing Node.js with Express, which is a
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|web framework for Node.js.
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code $ sudo apt-get install nodejs
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code $ sudo apt-get install npm
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|Once you have both Node.js and NPM installed, install Express and MongoDB.
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|We are going to install and use express generator to easily create a skeleton that we can
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|work from.
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code $ npm install express-generator -g
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|Based on your system, installing MongoDB may be a bit different.
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a(href="http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/") Here is a guide on how to install.
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p Once express generator is installed, it is extremely simple to set up a new Node application.
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code $ express myapp
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p This will generate a new fold "myapp" with prebuild folders and files.
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code $ cd myapp
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code $ npm install
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code $ npm start
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|Now as easy as that sounds, you have a Node web application running on your machine.
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|You can navigate to your web app at localhost:3000 (It's configured to use port 3000 by default)
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|Express organizes everything nicely in the
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a(href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller") Model View Controller
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|software pattern. Folders are split up into views, routes, and public files.
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|If you are implementing a database, you would also create a "models" folder.
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|There is also a folder which contains Node modules.
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|When you use NPM to install new modules this is where they will be located.
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|Node is a very powerful tool that I plan on exploring more in the future.
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|As development of this site continues, I plan to submit more content similar to this. |