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Projects / Applications

• node_chat by ry (live demo at chat.tinyclouds.org)
• nodelint.js by tav — run jslint from the command line
• nodeload by benschmaus and jonjlee — utility for benchmarking HTTP APIs
• nodewiki — a simple wiki based on node and redis
• blog.js — Simple blogging engine based on node.js
• cassiterite — Another blogging engine based on node.js + Tokyo Tyrant + nginx
• Sousaball by creationix (sousaball.creationix.com)
• DinMaker by creationix (live demo at chat.creationix.com)
• Flickr Spy — Discover where your Flickr contacts are commenting
• azathoth — simple HTTP traffic/load generator and benchmark proof of concept
• antinode — Simple static file HTTP Server with logging
• NodeMachine — Port of WebMachine for Node.js
• LifeInText — LiT is a mashup platform for personal projects and snippets.
• Ajax IM — Ajax IM is an instant messaging server and framework for the browser.
• 7 Minutes Chrono – A speed-dating chat application. Uses websockets and node.js
• Persevere – REST/HTTP + JSON-based web data project that includes Pintura, Perstore, CommonJS-Utils
• js.io — Javascript Networking Library for building real-time web applications
• BusBound – iPhone web application built with express framework
• JSONPify – a JSONP proxy for client applications
• Djangode – Django’s regex-based URL handling, utility functions, and html templating for node
• The WPilot Project – A multiplayer, space shooter, action game in your browser. Server is built in node
• Socket.IO – An abstraction over all the realtime transports (WebSocket, long polling, XHR multipart, etc) for the Node HTTP server
• zztmmo – a zzt based massive multiplayer online game built in node.js and jQuery
• diretto – Distributed Recon/Reporting Transceiver Toolkit – Uses Node.js for web-based media storage and delivery
• ElusiveHippo – Push deployment for nodejs (written entirely in nodejs).

Articles

• pubsub — by Malte Ubl
• Going Evented with Node.js — Naked JavaScript
• Node.js is genuinely exciting — by Simon Willison
• Deploying Node.js with Upstart and Monit — by Tim Smart
• Several tutorials about Node.js — by Tim Caswell (How to Node)
• Advanced JavaScript $4 eBook — by TJ Holowaychuk
• Node.js – I just have to use it for something — by Phil Hawksworth
• node by example — by Hendrik Daldrup

Talks

• Node.js at JSConf.eu 2009 — by Ryan Dahl
• Node.js at JSConf.us 2010 — by Ryan Dahl
• Running YUI3 on Node.js — by Adam Moore

Companies using node

• “Heroku”:“http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/4/28/node_js_support_experimental/” Dead simple Node deployment for you, and internal tools for us.
• Academia.edu – uses node for background data processing
• Adcloud — Javascript Adserver on EC2
• BrandedCode
• Chompin – discover new music, mobile app, uses node for the entire back end api
• Datagraph – uses node as part of a sharded large-scale RDF storage system.
• Debuggable — using node.js for TransloadIt’s file uploading & encoding server
• Dextrose — heavily uses node for their upcoming JavaScript based game engine “Aves Engine”
• Deco – Real-time collaborative mood boarding for web designers
• e-resistible – uses node to handle network communication to restaurant printers
• Feisty Studios
• Fictorial
• Joyent
• Medium
• MyBrands — web-tracker and product recommendations (node + couchdb)
• Next Feature
• Next Please! – uses node to match Adobe Stratus id’s.
• Plurk — using node.js for its new comet system
• Sexbyfood — a web-based reservations book for restaurateurs
• SitePen
• Telefónica R&D
• Vision Media — Web development firm based in Victoria, BC
• Ylastic – uses node for report processing and admin app
• Pixelspark
• Newspaper Club – Uses node.js for wrapping a nasty SOAP interface to InDesign Server.