Let's Get Small

(with Open Source)

by Dave Walk / @ddw17

So I made this thing...

Philly Hoods

Node

fast, async, JavaScript, blah blah blah...

The best thing about Node is modules

Using & Making Node modules

var hello = require('hello');

hello.world();

module.exports = function (something) {
    // Do stuff with that something
};

NPM

It's growing...

Source: modulecounts.com

@substack

if you get lost while building an app, it's because there are some tiny modules that don't exist yet and you should go and build them

Why Philly Hoods?

Philly Hoods' modules

• DB: pg
• REST API: restify
• logging: bunyan
• testing: should, supertest, mocha, sleep
• GeoJSON: geojson (thx caseypt!)

Philly Hoods wrapper

    var hoods = require('philly-hoods');

    hoods.findByCoords(39.948495, -75.144504, function (err, res) {
        if (err) return err;

        console.log(res);
    });

    hoods.findByName('old', function (err, res) {
        if (err) return err;

        console.log(res);
    });

Thx!

@ddw17davewalk.netphillyhoods.netgithub.com/davewalk