Node.js is a JavaScript runtime, built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine, that’s suitable for implementing both desktop and server apps. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes ...

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Peter looks at Knockout, one of the MVC environments for writing client-side JavaScript, and wonders if we're on the wrong path. The typical interweaving of code and presentation logic in JavaScript ...

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Frameworks “chunk” much of the fine-grained functionality of the JavaScript language into method calls, reducing the amount of code the lazy programmer needs to write, test, and debug. There are two ...

So, I've seen stuff like Backbone touted as a new way to write web code, pushing the model and the controller out into JS, and it intrigues me, but I don't really understand it. it seems like this ...