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Getting started with Nodejs, MongoDB and Tower.js

February 22, 2013 , posted under JavaScript nodejs towerjs placement I have recently purchased a raspberry pi to play with, my primary reason for getting one was to have a lightweight linux server that I could develop for. There has been lots of good things said about NodeJS recently and so I wanted to see what all of the hype was about and try and create a basic chat application. Most of my time programming has been spent working on .NET MVC apps and so i wanted to choose a framework where I could reuse my knowledge about MVC. After reading the excellent stack overflow post comparing 2 popular node js frameworks Tower.js and Railway.js. Read more...