With some basic tutorials under my belt, I decided to see what cloud offered in term of node.js IDE's.<\/p>\n
The Cloud 9 node.js IDE<\/a> was my first stop, and I have to say, unlike Sublime Text with a suite of plugins, it did not leave me wearing, though I admit it's not exactly fair to compare an extensible text editor to a IDE.<\/p>\n While I still have much I want to try, my next investigation was into running node.js locally.<\/p>\n Forever <\/a>was the first on my radar, which persists a running node script over server and and restarts. Devo.ps blog<\/a>\u00a0on their preference of PM2<\/a>\u00a0then caught my attention. PM2 also offers cluster load balancing, JSON configs and few production level features has taken over in popularity.<\/p>\n I then came across a blog post I that, as a node newbie, I found quite useful,\u00a07 tips for a Node.js padawan<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Faisal Abid<\/a>. Its recommendation to use\u00a0nodemon\u00a0<\/a>for dev, and PM2 for production made a lot of sense, especially since\u00a0PM2 is not design for windows use<\/a>, time to dust off the LMDE server I usually reserve for Android ROM work.<\/p>\n My next search, being the visual guy I am, I was looking for an all in one local web dashboard, process monitoring, server management & performance monitoring app.\u00a0This stackoverflow answer<\/a>, resulted in the context switch I needed from my IIS heavy background to the lightweight node.js space. What I need is not a monitoring app, but a node.js script, or a plugin or two to run on a second port, which monitors the first, as well as Finally, PM2 or whatever else i'd like to keep an eye on.<\/p>\n There also seems to be quite a market for node monitoring apps, such as nodetime <\/a>and strongops<\/a>, let alone what the cloud hosting apps themselves offer. Seems as though I am putting the cart before the horse, as I would suspect it best to rule out if an app would use cloud hosting before trying to reinvent the wheel in term of monitoring.<\/p>\n With that small exploratory tangent into the node.js space complete, it's back to Cloud 9 until I get a chance to compare it to Codeenvy<\/a>, Compilr<\/a>,\u00a0Koding<\/a>, and whatever else enters this rapidly growing space between now and then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With some basic tutorials under my belt, I decided to see what cloud offered in term of node.js IDE's. The Cloud 9 node.js IDE was my first stop, and I have to say, unlike Sublime Text with a suite of plugins, it did not leave me wearing, though I admit it's not exactly fair to ...continue reading