1. Getting started
with Node.js and MongoDB on MS Azure
®
20.03.2012
Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Johannes Hoppe

2. 01
Hello

3. Johannes Hoppe
IT-Consultant & Web Developer
www.johanneshoppe.de

4. JavaScript?

5. As a server side
language?

6. Executed inside
a database?

7. For a hardware-
accelerated
3D game?

8. Hosted on
WINDOWS?

9. Yes!
of course

10. Live Demo
www.solartournament.org

12. 02
SDK for Node.js

13. platform
Cloud
PaaS / IaaS
Visual Studio 2010
Targets .NET, but also and now officially:
Java, PHP, Node.js… MongoDB

14. Event-driven Asynchronous I/O
JavaScript Google V8 engine
Server-side MIT License

15. www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/nodejs/

16. What you get
› Node.exe
› IISNode (native IIS module)
› NPM for Windows (package manager)
› […]

17. Live Demo / Windows PowerShell
› New-AzureService helloworld
› Add-AzureNodeWebRole
› Start-AzureEmulator -launch

18. server.js
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end('Hello world!');
}).listen(process.env.PORT);

19. Azure SDK for Node.js
Troubleshooter

20. Tricky Emulator
› Webinstaller: Decide for IIS Express
› Start PowerShell with Admin Rights

21. Tricky Emulator
› Check the Windows Event log
› Last resort: start node.exe manually

22. Deployment / Windows PowerShell
› Get-AzurePublishSettings
› Import-AzurePublishSettings filename.publishSettings
› Publish-AzureService -name UniqueName -location "North
Europe" -launch

23. Node.js Web Application
Tutorial:
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-
us/develop/nodejs/tutorials/getting-started/

24. 03
MongoDB

25. “Microsoft has been working with 10gen
to provide MongoDB database
integration for Windows Azure,
including deployment packaging,
documentation, and code samples.”
MSDN, December 2011: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg441573.aspx

26. http://downloads.mongodb.org/azure/
AzureMongoDeploymentCmdlets.msi

27. PowerShell
› Only once: Get-AzureMongoDBBinaries
› New-AzureService helloMongo
› Add-AzureMongoWorkerRole
› Join-AzureNodeRoleToMongoRole WebRole1
› npm install mongodb

28. Node.js Web Application
with Storage on MongoDB
Tutorial:
https://www.windowsazure.com/en-
us/develop/nodejs/tutorials/web-app-with-mongodb/

29. TODO!

31. Questions?

32. Thank you!
Johannes Hoppe

33. Next Speaking Engagements
› 12.04.2012 – .NET UG Niederrhein: AOP / .NET
› 10.05.2012 – .NET UG Karlsruhe: NoSQL / .NET
› 14.05.2012 – .NET Developer Conference (DDC)
Nürnberg: NoSQL / .NET (2 talks)

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