Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl

[Xenc]

Watching this video 12 years ago changed my life as a programmer 👏

[NoName-zkwv]

I watch this video again and again.
In my humble opinion a turning point in history of computer science.

[Zeturic]

I love how much more comfortable he seems in this presentation than in the original talk introducing node.

[bernardinojosa]

"Windows is important, just like PHP"

-The guy that "killed" PHP

[TarikGuney]

Frankly, I really like how he explained NodeJs. It is like learning NodeJs from your friend. I also liked his honesty about what he knows and what he does not.

[someonerules]

I can't believe I watched that whole thing... I mean, it was awesome and all, I just didn't know I was capable of watching a presentation for an hour.

I guess Ryan is just that damn captivating.

[TroyAPeterson]

In the middle of my week of JavaScript. Struggling with Angular and Node all day today. Brain gets full, overloads and shuts down. Glad I found this, starting to get Node.

[Big_Eevee]

39:53 I can't believe Google actually looked like that in 2011.

[nobillygreen]

Absolutely fantastic explanation. A good mix of examples that explain why one would use node and an appreciation for the depth of node.

[jbperez]

Great to see Ryan has gotten a lot more confident at public speaking nowadays. One of his first public talks was rather difficult to listen to because it was peppered with uhhs and mmms.

I do find this talk much more pleasant to watch and in fact it was very compelling and interesting.

[cdleeman]

This guy's programming brilliance: 9, teaching abillity: 3

[doug]

This talk is great! Javascript's closure support makes all this callback stuff really easy and powerful. I love it.

[nisonlikethecar]

Love how he brought up 'callback hell' before it had a name. He calls it 'maddness of callbacks' at 51:34

[MuthuveerappanPeriyakaruppan]

Wow, awesome presentation and with lots of humor. Thanks Ryan Dahl

[mateusvahl]

It's good to see this talk in 2014 and how much node grow up

[jamth]

Still so helpful after nearly 3 years. Thanks Ryan

[sethmiller]

yes, that's the beauty of Node - it extends JavaScript by offering protocols that you would typically need php or another server side language to do (Python, Ruby on Rails/etc). You only need JavaScript with Node.

In my case I was looking into RESTFul web services (that typically utilize php to do stuff) and will not need to delve deeply into using php to parse XML & JSON (flexible data formats on the web)

[BriceStacey]

This is a great introduction to node. Thanks, Ryan.

[dogafincan]

The presentation itself is awesome, but I also love seeing how Chrome and GitHub looked back then.

[JohnLFoleyIII]

Ryan - Nice work, were all looking forward to Nodes version 1.0 release.