https://www.mrwade.co.uk/tags/nodejs/Recent content in Nodejs on The blog of Mr WadeHugoen-GBCopyright © 2026, Michael Wade; all rights reserved.Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:48:58 +0800https://www.mrwade.co.uk/posts/getting-started-with-node-mongodb-and-towerjs.aspx/Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:48:00 +0800https://www.mrwade.co.uk/posts/getting-started-with-node-mongodb-and-towerjs.aspx/<p>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.</p> <p>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 <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9897017/railwayjs-vs-towerjs/9904446#9904446" title="SO Comparison">node js frameworks Tower.js and Railway.js</a>.</p>