Garann Means writing for A List Apart:
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could go from just designing layouts and interactions to designing the whole client side of the application during the same process?
This is where Node comes in.
It seems, when people start using Node.js they fall into one of two camps:
- SERVER-SIDE JAVASCRIPT?! OMG, JAVASCRIPT ALL THE THINGS!
- Hey man, it’s a great tool for building fast, scalable network applications, and it’s perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices…let’s use it for what it was intended.
I’m still waffling between the two. Some days I’m person #1, other days I’m person #2.