Nodejitsu is another Node.js PAAS that offers a free plan. The free plan is shared hosting through Joyent. The performance of NodeJitsu’s free plan is very good, especially considering it’s free. To start sign up on NodeJitsu’s site with the free plan and then follow the Getting Started instructions. It was a very quick process on Windows. You can use either their command line, Node.JS based jitsu tool, use the admin web site or use the HTTP API.
Executing the basic jitsu command will show you the following information:
G:>jitsu info: Welcome to Nodejitsu info: It worked if it ends with Nodejitsu ok info: Executing command help: ___ __ help: / / / /_ / / help: __/ / / __/ /__/ help: help: Flawless deployment of Node.js apps to the cloud help: open-source and fully customizable. help: https://github.com/nodejitsu/jitsu help: help: Usage: help: help: jitsu <resource> <action> <param1> <param2> ... help: help: Common Commands: help: help: To sign up for Nodejitsu help: jitsu signup help: help: To log into Nodejitsu help: jitsu login help: help: To install a pre-built application help: jitsu install help: help: Deploys current path to Nodejitsu help: jitsu deploy help: help: Lists all applications for the current user help: jitsu list help: help: Additional Commands help: jitsu apps help: jitsu logs help: jitsu env help: jitsu conf help: jitsu users help: jitsu databases help: jitsu snapshots help: jitsu logout help: help: Options: help: --version, -v print jitsu version and exit [string] help: --localconf search for .jitsuconf file in ./ and then parent dir ectories [string] help: --jitsuconf, -j specify file to load configuration from [string] help: --noanalyze skip require-analyzer: do not attempt to dynamically detect dependencies [boolean] help: --colors --no-colors will disable output coloring [boolean] [default: true] help: --release, -r specify release version number or semantic increment (build, patch, minor, major) [string] help: --raw jitsu will only output line-delimited raw JSON ( use ful for piping ) [boolean] info: Nodejitsu ok
To add a MongoDB NoSQL Database is really simple!
jitsu databases create mongo myMongo info: Welcome to Nodejitsu tspannnodejs info: It worked if it ends with Nodejitsu ok info: Executing command databases create mongo myMongo info: A new mongo has been created data: Database Type: mongo data: Database Name: myMongo data: Connection url: mongodb://nodejitsu:c23948239348239482934@st aff.mongohq.com:10064/nodejitsudb684248241564 info: Nodejitsu ok
To create your first test app, you can install their demo Hello World application as follows:
jitsu install helloworld
Directory of paasnodejitsuhelloworld
07/20/2012 12:41 PM <DIR> node_modules 07/20/2012 12:41 PM 1,015 package.json 07/20/2012 12:41 PM <DIR> bin 07/20/2012 12:41 PM 1,534 ReadMe.md 2 File(s) 2,549 bytes 4 Dir(s) 2,900,639,744 bytes free
cd helloworld
jitsu deploy
info: Welcome to Nodejitsu tspannnodejs
info: It worked if it ends with Nodejitsu ok
info: Executing command deploy
warn:
warn: Your package.json file is missing required fields:
warn:
warn: subdomain
warn:
warn: Prompting user for required fields.
warn: Press ^C at any time to quit.
warn:
prompt: subdomain: (tspannnodejs.helloworld)
warn: About to write G:paasnodejitsuhelloworldpackage.json
data:
data: {
data: contributors: [
data: { name: 'Marak Squires', email: 'marak.squires@gmail.com' },
data: { name: 'Joshua Holbrook', email: 'josh.holbrook@gmail.com' }
data: ],
data: dependencies: {},
data: repository: { type: 'git', url: 'git://github.com/nodeapps/hellowor
ld.git' },
data: bugs: { url: 'https://github.com/nodeapps/helloworld/issues' },
data: subdomain: 'tspannnodejs.helloworld',
data: engines: { node: '>=0.4' },
data: optionalDependencies: {},
data: analyze: false,
data: name: 'nodeapps-helloworld',
data: devDependencies: {},
data: scripts: { start: 'node ./bin/server' },
data: author: { name: 'Nodejitsu Inc.', email: 'support@nodejitsu.com' },
data: main: '',
data: description: 'a very basic node.js helloworld application',
data: homepage: 'http://nodeapps.github.com/helloworld',
data: version: '0.2.0',
data: licenses: [
data: { type: 'MIT', url: 'https://github.com/nodeapps/helloworld/raw
/master/LICENSE' }
data: ],
data: keywords: [ 'nodeapps', 'helloworld' ]
data: }
data:
prompt: Is this ok?: (yes) yes
info: Skipping require-analyzer because noanalyze option is set
info: Checking app availability nodeapps-helloworld
info: Creating app nodeapps-helloworld
info: Creating snapshot 0.2.0
info: Updating app nodeapps-helloworld
info: Activating snapshot 0.2.0 for nodeapps-helloworld
info: Starting app nodeapps-helloworld
info: App nodeapps-helloworld is now started
info: http://tspannnodejs.helloworld.jit.su on Port 80
info: Nodejitsu ok
You can see the deployed application here.
This NYC Node.js PAAS is very performant with a fast easy to use tool. I am liking them so far. They are also very Node.JS oriented, being the only of the PAAS vendors to use Node.JS for their command line tool.
They have also developed the very interesting FlatIron Framework, which I will be looking at next.
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