Creative Computing - Summer 2020: Unit 4 / Block 2: "Coding for Collaborative Web Development": Lecture 1: Node.js and JSON

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This idea came from Zach Lieberman. He does this exercise at the start of every session of School of Poetic Computation in New York.

p5.gui: useful for changing values of variables while your app is running - tuning as it were.
p5.SceneManager: useful for having multiple different "modes", "levels" or "menu's" in your app.
p5.play: "a p5.js library for the creation of games and playthings". Used to make LikeLike arcade. Check out examples.

What is Node.js? "Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine". In other words, it's software that enables you to run JavaScript code on the server-side.
What is npm? Node Package Manager is the largest software registry in the world. It lets you download bits of code (aka modules) from other developers in an organised way.
Let's take a look at Matt DesLauriers' notes on Node.js and npm.
Four lists of useful node.js modules: 1, 2, 3, 4.

JSON is an file format to record attribute/value pairs or arrays of data. It's a super useful way of storing and sharing information online or on your own computer.
You can load .json files using the loadJSON() method in p5.js. Another example of loading data from .json in p5.js.
What else could you use these examples for?

Glitch.com is: "The friendly community where everyone can discover & create the best stuff on the web!🙋💖🎉". You can see from their Wikipedia article that they also make other things.
I love Glitch because it lets people deploy, share and edit node.js based apps SUPER easily and simultaneously. Everything on the site is open source and freely remixable. Their CEO loves Prince.
Please sign up to Glitch if you haven't already, and send me your Glitch username on Slack. I'm @JGL there. Then I can add you to the CCI Diploma 2019 team. Can someone make an avatar for the team? And a banner?
Let's take a look at some of the building blocks available on Glitch. There are loads of other collections too.

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