Typical usage of node.js

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I am a quite new to node js and have done some homework in reading the docs, building a small app and went through some blogs posts. But now i'm looking for some typical use cases for a node application.

An example or a scenario will do.

Can someone help me with this?

Thanks.

A chat room? Any kind of simple webservices? Just watch this video youtube.com/watch?v=jo_B4LTHi3I from the creator of node_js it will teach you the "spirit" of node_js. — lc2817
– lc2817, Commented Oct 12, 2011 at 5:06
Efficient AJAX-enabled Content Management System with extensive file-sharing and interactivity. — zzzzBov
– zzzzBov, Commented Oct 12, 2011 at 5:06
Read the 1-liner descriptions of the projects built with node.js on the node.js wiki — Peter Lyons
– Peter Lyons, Commented Oct 12, 2011 at 5:53
Node.js is perfect for website scraping, because of its speed. Here is an article. blog.dtrejo.com/scraping-made-easy-with-jquery-and-selectorga — Giedrius Vičkus
– Giedrius Vičkus, Commented Jun 13, 2012 at 12:55

Jamund Ferguson · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-30 03:55:47Z

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It's really useful to build APIs that power mobile apps. At i.TV, we created an API with node.js to power our iPhone App that helps people know what's on TV. We use it because it scales really well and it's fun to program in JavaScript :)

LinkedIn chose Node.js to power their mobile app for similar reasons: http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/16/linkedin-node/

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Samyak Bhuta · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-30 09:27:06Z

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See http://corp.klout.com/blog/2011/10/the-tech-behind-klout-com/ or a long list at https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Projects,-Applications,-and-Companies-Using-Node.

Node.js is stupendous with its single-thread-for-all-connection approach where each packet received is notified as event which is then handle by callback. Basically with node.js, you achieve a high level of concurrency without much multi-threading blues.

Also, when not to use node.js and why - http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.javascript.nodejs/30957.

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