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Node.js is a complete server and client environment, as in the server processing and client interaction is coded in Coffee (an abstract Javascript layer). This makes it a very efficient stack with little overhead.

== Install OS X ==

=== Node.js ===
Download [http://nodejs.org/#download the latest stable Node.js] package, the current versions is 0.4.10.

 wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.10.tar.gz
 tar zxvf node-v0.4.10.tar.gz
 cd node-v0.4.10
 ls

Check and build Node.js. Superuser to install it under /usr/local

 ./configure
 make
 make install
 sudo make install

=== MongoDB ===
MongoDB is a document-oriented database, oposite to a relational-oriented database. Structured in JSON-documents and easy to create data models.

Download MongoDB 64-bit and extract the binaries.
 wget http://fastdl.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-x86_64-1.8.2.tgz
 tar zxvf mongodb-osx-x86_64-1.8.2.tgz
 cd mongodb-osx-x86_64-1.8.2
 cd bin/
 ls

Create the database directory and execute the server.
 sudo mkdir -p /data/db
 ./mongod

=== npm ===
NPM stands for Node.js Package Management. Makes it easy to resolve and install any dependencies Node.js may require.

 wget http://npmjs.org/install.sh
 chmod +x install.sh
 sudo ./install.sh
 npm 

Run npm to install any dependcies and coffee-script. Coffe-script compiles abstract code into Javascript, worth a try.

 sudo npm install
 sudo npm install -g coffee-script
 sudo npm list

=== redis ===
redis is a in-memory  key-value data store.

 wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.2.12.tar.gz
 tar xzf redis-2.2.12.tar.gz
 cd redis-2.2.12
 make

When the binary is compiled start the server.

 src/redis-server