Nerds are very cool these days - but, you may ask, what has a NERD to do with Domino V10? Should they not all bleed yellow? Maybe, but behind the acronym NERD is a very compelling technology decision! But first, let us jump into the acronym:

N = Node.js - A nonblocking JavaScript engine based on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine
E = Express - One of the most popular Node libraries, which turns Node into a REST API / HTML server
R = React (or, as I prefer, R = Really Cool User Interface) - React is a client JavaScript framework to build a brilliant user interface
D = Domino - Yes, Domino: something must be a store for all the data and even more (i.e. business logic)

Node.js, JavaScript... some of you may say "finally!", others not. Either way, Node.js is one of the most sucessful platforms and has with NPM the largest Open Source ecosystem. And, you may ask, why? Let me quote one of the German Node.js influencers, Golo Roden (@goloroden): solutions in JavaScript have to be simple and clean or they will be replaced by simple and clean solutions. Express is one of the best examples. Two lines of code and you have configured a server for static HTML files. Two more lines and a REST API is running.

Another popular framework is Passport. Passport provides integration with a huge variety of different identity and authentication providers. You want to use Facebook? With Passport, no problem: done with just a few lines of code.

Node.js is the glue between your front end and your clever backend services. A lot of integration problems are already solved by the power of this huge Open Source ecosystem. It makes complete sense to leverage this power for Domino application. In addition, with NERD, we have the potential to attract a huge community of JavaScript developers. We are talking about 4.5 million developers according to LinkedIn. And it seems that in the year 2018 JavaScript will be the most popular language!

Dear NERDs let's get ready for domino-db, the integration point for Node.js. Let's explore a whole new universe of possibilities!

What can you do until then:
1. Download an IDE that is good for developing Node.js application. As a Swiss guy, I recommend Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
2. Do some baby steps to explore Express: https://expressjs.com/
3. Stay tuned for my next blog post

Have fun,
Christian

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