Just a little notice for all of you having fun and success with node.js, likely the most popular JavaScript runtime not being a browser. Some of you already know that qooxdoo’s OO layer (called “qxoo”) does work great on node.js and gets updated and published every week together with our devel demos.

If you didn’t know yet, go ahead and give it a try. But now you don’t even need to download the file from our server, because we added qooxdoo to the node package manager or, in short, npm. Having both, node.js and npm installed, you can simply run npm install qooxdoo right in your project folder and start to use the power of qooxdoo on node.js.

If you are not familiar with node, you can use this simple demo to get started:

var qx = require('qooxdoo');

qx.Class.define("Dog", {
  extend : qx.core.Object,
  members : {
    bark : function() {
      console.log("BARK!");
    }
  }
});

var dog = new Dog();
dog.bark();

The only code specific to node.js in that example is the very first line, and that’s it! Check out more information on qxoo.