January 3rd Presentation Topic

[zachleat]

Need a topic for the following meetup: http://www.meetup.com/nebraskajs/events/87624182/

@nicknisi has volunteered to speak. @nicknisi should join NebraskaJS on GitHub so that I can pester/assign him with/to this GitHub issue.

Nick has proposed the following topics: Node.js or Backbone. Other thoughts? Or of these topics, anything specific you're looking for?

Reference tweet: https://twitter.com/mattdsteele/status/267817116290412544

[nicknisi]

So, I've been working on a Node.js app with a Backbone/RequireJS frontend for a few months now and would be more than happy to share my experiences.

I could go over some advanced topics service creation, how we manage our callbacks, database connections, and Connect Middleware.

Additionally, or perhaps at a later time, I can talk about RequireJS/AMD and the benefits of writing modular JavaScript.

[snekse]

Just RSVPed.

[markehost]

I second the motion to present on backbone/underscore. It's not just a hot topic anymore, it's heavily used in production apps.

Not sure if a Node/Require presentation would be better separately. These are two big, although, very intertwined topics.

[mattdsteele]

For Node, a few things I'd love to see:

• Building services with Express.
• Best practices for avoiding callback hell
• Sharing templates between client-side & server-side JavaScript code. Seems like the holy grail

+1 that Node, Backbone, and Require should each be separate talks.

[zachleat]

Yeah, +1 to talks and code that are modular. I think specific topics also have a better chance at giving a variety of skill levels nuggets they can take home.

[nicknisi]

For the Jan 3 meetup I'll talk about Building RESTful services with Node.js where I'll cover all bullet points brought up by @mattdsteele, along with a few others.

[zachleat]

Also, for the record: https://twitter.com/zachleat/status/271257303964061697 referencing https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/5281