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| author | Ryan <ry@tinyclouds.org> | 2009-05-30 21:36:41 +0400 |
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| committer | Ryan <ry@tinyclouds.org> | 2009-05-30 21:36:41 +0400 |
| commit | d13d06467abb5cdfea2059f330c88730831eeda7 (patch) | |
| tree | 4f08b6d2b3fd00ab8952a5077ecd4533f2c20bdc /website | |
| parent | 7bd2282a9f8644621f21d798ed814ba53c788816 (diff) | |
Add audience to website
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| -rw-r--r-- | website/index.html | 52 |
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/website/index.html b/website/index.html index 9807cd0c5ea..7e89ecc7fad 100644 --- a/website/index.html +++ b/website/index.html @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ <html> <style> + ul { + padding: 0; + margin: 0; + } </style> <script type="text/javascript" src="sh_main.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="sh_javascript.min.js"></script> @@ -9,6 +13,13 @@ <title>node.js</title> <body onload="sh_highlightDocument();"> <div id="toc"> + <ol> + <li><a href="#audience">Audience</a> + <li><a href="#about">About</a> + <li><a href="#download">Download</a> + <li><a href="#build">Build</a> + <li><a href="api.html">Documentation</a> + </ol> </div> <div id="content"> @@ -39,6 +50,17 @@ Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ <p> See the <a href="api.html">API documentation</a> for more examples. +<h2 id=audience>Audience</h2> + +<p>This project is for those interested in +<ul> +<li>server-side javascript +<li>developing evented servers +<li>developing new web frameworks +</ul> + +<h2 id=about>About</h2> + <p> Node's goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs. In the above example, the 2 second delay does not prevent the server from @@ -65,13 +87,12 @@ difficult to use. -<p> -Node will show much better memory efficency under high-loads +Node will show much better memory efficiency under high-loads <!-- TODO benchmark --> than systems which allocate 2mb thread stacks for each connection. -<p>Users of Node are free from worries of dead-locking the -process—there are no locks. In fact, there arn't even blocking +Users of Node are free from worries of dead-locking the +process—there are no locks. In fact, there aren't even blocking functions. Because nothing blocks, Node can be given to less-than-export programmers to build servers. @@ -79,7 +100,7 @@ programmers to build servers. Ruby's <a href="http://rubyeventmachine.com/">Event Machine</a> or Python's <a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/">Twisted</a>. -But Node takes the paradigm. +But Node takes the mode event-based API further. In other systems, there is always a blocking call to start the event-loop. Typically one sets up behavior through callbacks and at the end starts the server through a call like <code>EventMachine::run()</code>. In Node, @@ -87,13 +108,13 @@ there is no such thing. By default Node enters the event loop after executing the input script. Node exits the event loop when there are no more callbacks to perform. -<p>Node's HTTP server has grown out of my difficulties developing -and working with web servers. For example, streaming data through most web -frameworks is difficult or impossible. Or like the oft-made false +<p>Node's HTTP API has grown out of my difficulties developing +and working with web servers. For example, streaming data through most web +frameworks is difficult or impossible. Or like the oft-made false assumption that all message headers have unique fields. Node attempts to -correct these problems by providing a low-level but complete HTTP API. -Coupled with Node's purely evented infrastructure, it will make a solid foundation for -future frameworks. +correct these and other problems in its API. +Coupled with Node's purely evented infrastructure, it will make a solid +foundation for future frameworks. <p> <i>But what about multiple-processor concurrency? Threads are necessary to scale programs to multi-core computers.</i> The name <i>Node</i> should @@ -105,9 +126,6 @@ to be able to spawn new processes (probably using the <a href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/">Web Workers API</a>), but this is something that fits well into the current design. -<p> Node is released under an MIT license.</p> - - <h2 id="download">Download</h2> <p><a href="http://github.com/ry/node/tree/master">The git repo</a> @@ -122,8 +140,10 @@ href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/four.livejournal/20090527/node-0.0.1.tar.gz">node- <h2 id="build">Build</h2> <p>Node eventually wants to support all POSIX operating systems (including -Windows with mingw) but at the moment it is only being tested on Linux, -Macintosh, and FreeBSD. The build system requires Python. V8, on which +Windows with MinGW) but at the moment it is only being tested on +<b>Linux</b>, +<b>Macintosh</b>, and +<b>FreeBSD</b>. The build system requires Python. V8, on which Node is built, supports only IA-32 and ARM processors. V8 is included in the Node distribution. There are no dependencies. |