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Create a WordPress Post from Node.js

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WordPress uses an XML-RPC interface by default. XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism. With WordPress XML-RPC support, you can post to your WordPress blog using many popular clients. You could even consider writing your own client application using Node.js. Let’s do a proof of concept.

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Saving Data to MongoDB Database from a Node.js Application

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In this tutorial we will be creating a very simple Node application, that will allow users to input data that they want to store in a MongoDB database. You can use the the existing template in XenServer to launch a Linux machine with Node.js and MongoDB pre-installed.

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Hello World in Node.js

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This is how you would script “Hello World” in Node.js

// requiring the HTTP interfaces in node 
var http = require('http'); 

// create an http server to handle requests and response 
http.createServer(function (req, res) 
{ 

  // sending a response header of 200 OK 
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'}); 

  // print out Hello World 
  res.end('Hello World\n'); 

// use port 8080
}).listen(8080); 

console.log('Server running on port 8080.');