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JavaScript callbacks are not readable when nested in many layers. Async [https://www.npmjs.com/package/async] library is a great tool to overcome this. I find a good tutorial [http://www.sebastianseilund.com/nodejs-async-in-practice] with case examples written by Sebastian Seilund. Introduced control flows are: * async.parallel([taskFunctions], finalCallback)
node.js
I am setting an IISNODE to run an node.js application on Windows server. There are quite a few online guides about how to use IISNODE. This is a good start presentation by Tomasz Janczuk, the author of iisnode. This is another helpful document by him,. He summarizes the benefit
node.js
To make front-end workflows convenient, I researched the best available options. And I find that NPM can handle the works that Bower does for front-end package management. Because simplicity is my eager programming practice, I decided to stick to this option: NPM for all, back and front. I have used