Chapter 9. OpenShift for Node.js Developers

This chapter presents a number of recipes that will help you get started with Node.js web application development on OpenShift. The specific recipes of this chapter are:

  • Creating your first Node.js application
  • Configuring Node supervisor options
  • Managing Node.js application dependencies
  • Using the use_npm marker
  • Enabling hot deployment for Node.js applications
  • Creating and deploying Express web applications using Node.js and MongoDB cartridges
  • Working with Web Sockets
  • Using CoffeeScript with OpenShift Node.js applications

Introduction

Node.js is a server-side JavaScript platform built on top of Google's Chrome V8 JavaScript engine that developers can use to write applications. These applications can be web applications, ...

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