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Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849519267

Length 318 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Appcelerator Titanium

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Author (1):

Christian Brousseau

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Stopwatch (with Lap Counter) FREE CHAPTER

2. Sili, the assistant that just listens

3. The To-do List

4. Interactive E-book for iPad

5. You've Got to Know When to Hold 'em

6. JRPG – Second to Last Fantasy

7. JRPG – Second to Last Fantasy Online

8. Social Networks

9. Marvels of the World around Us

10. Worldwide Marco Polo

A. References

Index

Node.js

Node.js is a software platform that is used to develop (usually) server-side applications. It is built on Google Chrome's JavaScript runtime; therefore, developers can use JavaScript on the server. It is also important to mention that it uses a single-threaded event loop and nonblocking I/O, which provides very high performance. It can be downloaded for free from the official website at http://nodejs.org.

NPM

Node Package Manager (NPM), just as its name implies, is the predominant package manager for the Node.js platform. There were more than 38,000 packages available in the npm registry (https://npmjs.org) at the time of writing this book. It comes bundled with the Node.js installation, so no operation is needed in order to use it.

Socket.IO

Socket.IO is a JavaScript library for real-time web applications. It has both a server component as well as a client component. It then uses the web socket protocol for communication. This means that it relies on events instead of always...

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Node.js

NPM

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