While I’m passionate about user experience, I also spend a lot of time working on various development projects as well.  Recently, I’ve focused most of my efforts behind Node.js and have enjoyed it thoroughly.  The amount of passion and adoption I see around the language astounds me since the language was created just back in 2009.  Though, since Node is written on top of JavaScript, it feels like a much more mature language.  Sadly though, JavaScript isn’t perfect and is missing a lot of common features that other languages have.  Thankfully, the Node community has helped in these shortcomings though the use of NPM, Node’s package management system.

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