Getting Started with NodeJS on Windows

NodeJS on windows has come a long way since the early days. Now windows is pretty much a first class citizen in node world. I did a quick video to show how to get started with NodeJS on windows:

TypeScript Deep Dive

I recently gave an indepth advanced talk on TypeScript at Melbourne ALT.NET:
http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-ALT-NET/events/115068682/

I had a lot of fun preparing the slides for this presentation. They are based on RevealJS / HTML. I addtionally strapped in TypeScript / Angular / RequireJS for my future talks.

You can find the slides here: https://github.com/basarat/TypeScriptDeepDive and I encourage you to use these in your own talks and contributions are appreciated.

Slides embedded here as well (click on slide to make active and press f to go fullscreen):

Webstorm Error : XMLHttpRequest cannot load file. Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin

This happens because XMLHttpRequest is not allowed by default in any web browser when running off the local file system.

One way around that is to run in a web server but for simple quick scripts that might be an overkill.

Here's how you can run your site in webstorm without a web server: 

There is a simple flag --allow-file-access-from-files you can set in Chrome to overcome this. Go to your settings:

Then Web Browsers and click on Settings button next to chrome:

Put in the flag and get cracking:

Make sure you have all instances of chrome closed before you start a debug session because the command line flag will only work on a fresh launch of the browser.

Update: or you could always use (for webstorm 6+) : http://localhost:63342/Your_Project_Name which is the built-in web server inside WebStorm.

See how to do it here: