Event Driven Applications

Readings

• Event Driven Applications

  1. What native Node.js module allows us to get started with Event Driven Programming?

     • EventEmitter allows us to get started incorporating Event-Driven Programming in our project right away

  2. What is the value of Object Oriented Programming used in tandem with Event Driven Programming?

     • promotes the idea that all behavior of an individual unit (or object) be handled from code within that unit. Using this approach, applications are built with many different units that all speak to and interact with each other

  3. Consider your knowledge of Event Driven Programming in the Web Browser, now explain to a non-technical friend how Event Driven Programming might be useful on the backend using Node.js.

     • whenever you click on something on a page, the application knows what to provide you by what you’re clicking on

Bookmark and Review

• Node docs: events

Things I want to know more about

• how this is differnt from what we’ve done in the front end. Maybe its the same?