nodejs where to start?

Question

I've installed nodejs and ran couple of simple examples like opening a server on a port and listen on that port.

However, I still can not relate nodejs to web development. so to learn and implement nodejs I'm thinking about making tic tac toe using rails and nodejs. Is this possible?

I'm envisioning a multi-player tic-tac-toe game where if person 1 selects something, person 2 automatically sees it on their browser.

where should I start with something like this?

I have experience in rails but none in nodejs or nodejs + rails.

Answer 1

First Just try to implement basic application and get a feel of the framework. There are several tutorials online for example:

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/learning-serverside-javascript-with-node-js/

Documentation at http://nodejs.org/

http://howtonode.org/

Also there is a 70 min screencast by peepcode which costs 9$

https://peepcode.com/products/nodejs-i

There are also several apps on github, which you take a look at. Reading code is always the best.