joe on node.js... after five shots of espresso

• joe: its SICK
• joe: it reverses the network paradigm
• joe: that all web apps use
• joe: that being that the client will request information from the server
• joe: and the server will send it back
• joe: i.e. ajax calls/http post/get etc
• joe: so instead the way my node app works
• joe: is that the server is constantly generating content/information/data (i.e. its parsing system statistics like memory & cpu usage every second)
• joe: and then if a client "connects" via websockets
• joe: and handshakes & says hello
• joe: the server then just PUSHES information to that client
• joe: instead of the client having to request it
• joe: no client side loops saying "gimme data, gimme data, gimme data"
• joe: *more raving*
• joe: when you wrap your head around that notion i.e. networking & web apps you see that doing things like building entire operating systems & massively comprehensive video games in the browser is like a JOKE
• joe: you can see why im shitting my dick all over the place over this stuff, its huge node.js + js + HTML5 = web dev is going to be fucking HUGE, as if it wasn't huge already
• joe: i'm so high right now
• joe: brb continuous deployment