Learning AngularJS: Why using nodeJS?

[paulowe...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I become a huge AngularJS fan recently I thing this is the future of web-development and that you are in the right direction.

But there are many courses that are applying AngularJS with nodeJS but to be honest I am not getting it... Why to develop AngularJS with NodeJS if you can't publish it directly on http servers. NodeJS can't be install in an http server in an easy way.

Personally I am not fully interested in publish my apps with Heroku or similar.

Am I learning AngularJS in the right/best way?

I want to create more interaction and SPA apps in websites that are already hosted in a normal http server.

Please give some tips.

Tks in advance

Paulo Le Bunny

[Sander Elias]

Hi Paulo,

Well, actually, you don't need node at all. Not for your app at least. A lot of the tools you use to build/test your app use node. So yes, there is merit in having some knowledge off node, and No, it is not needed to run or use an Angular app.

So, don't learn node if you just want to deploy angular apps, it's a waist of time. However, learn the tool you need to build your app (gulp/grunt/karma/protractor/...). Most of those tools use node. However you are not required to learn node to use those tools.

Does that makes sense to you? If not, don't hesitate to ask!

Regards

Sander

[Anthony Ettinger]

node can be installed with a few commands. what do you mean it can't be installed on a server in "an easy way"?

[Paulo Coelho]

Hello Sander,

Thank you so much for your clarification. Yes it makes sense for me.

All the best!

Paulo Le Bunny

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[Paulo Coelho]

Hello Anthony,

Let me rephrase the question. I read this discussion in stackoverflow.com and I learn the following:

Node can't run on any hosting providers, you can however deploy Nodejs projects in PAAS sites as Heroku and Linode

Please take a look:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16554289/can-node-js-run-in-any-hosting-provider

Do you have any useful tip or tick to run node in any hosting provider?

Tk you!

Paulo Le Bunny

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[Sander Elias]

Hi Paulo,

Well, There are a lot of hosting providers that can host nodeJS applications. However, they seldom allow that on shared(read cheap) hosting offers. 

If you have your own (virtual) computer hooked up to the net, you can deploy to that easily. You you need a hosted(virtual) computer, where you can put whatever you fancy. Or you can go with a specialized provider (like heroku/nodejutsu/linode etc)

Basically the last few, give your shared hosting with support for nodejs apps.

But as we have established already, you don't need node to deploy an angular app. Angular is backend-agnostic, this means you can connect it up with whatever you fancy. (and if you know a bit of PHP, you can host on most shared host plans!)

Regards

Sander

 

[Paulo Coelho]

Hello Sander,

Thank you for your reply. Now I understood what I can do with angularJS a bit better.
Because sometimes there are so many technologies and since I am starting I get a bit confused.

Regards

Paulo

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