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Node.js: Breaking JavaScript out of the browser since 2009

Basti Ortiz on November 03, 2018

A Brief History of JavaScript JavaScript has always been the programming (or rather scripting) language of the Web. It is a far cry from...
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Andrea Giammarchi •

Dear Some Dood, apologies for bringing this here (but there are apparently no other ways to contact you), but I think you should re-consider your avatar icon.
Best Regards.

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Basti Ortiz •

😂 No need for apologies, my friend. Why do you think so? It's my signature look per se. It's my personal (unregistered) trademark.

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Andrea Giammarchi •
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Basti Ortiz •

Oh, my. I didn't mean that at all. My avatar icon is supposed to be me waving or pointing at someone. Please don't take any offense from it. I apologize for the misunderstanding.

I'm afraid I don't want to change it (for now). I wanted a cartoonish feel around my avatar icon. Other than that, it also has some sentimental value to me.

Again, sorry if that puts you off. I really didn't mean any offense.

* I think we should be wrapping this up here. This is no place to discuss such matters.

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Andrea Giammarchi •

I know you didn't mean that, but like you wrote there is room for misunderstanding.
Anyway, mine was just a suggestion, hence feel free to ignore it.

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Basti Ortiz •

Thank you for understanding.

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Rong Sen Ng •

If you're interested to explore more, take a look at deno github.com/denoland/deno

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Basti Ortiz •

Ooooh, I heard about this project. Ryan Dahl promoted it in his talk on 10 Things I Regret About Node.js. It's really interesting.

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Aleksandar.Zivkovic •

fs.write('devto.txt', 'Hello World', err => console.log(err));

wrong function, you need to use writeFile, the previos one takes file description as a first input argument.

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Basti Ortiz •

Whoops! My bad! Thank you for that. I have corrected the error.