webaudioapi-example

simple fm synth using WebAudioAPI, socket.io, express, node.js and (processing) p5.js

chrome shortcuts

Mobile mode:

alt+cmd+i 

cmd+shift+m 

Node.js

costumizable webserver for javascript

interface with node through the terminal

Terminal commands:

cd path : (eg. /Applications)

cd .. go up one level

pwd path for directory

ls list what is in directory

clear will clear the view

open . will open current folder in Finder

Node commands:

node path-to-file.js will run that javascript

nodemon

https://github.com/remy/nodemon

restarts the server when there is a change in the server.js file

NPM - Node Package Manager

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s70-Vsud9Vk

A package is a library for javascript. It could be the 'Twit' library which helps you interface with the Twitter API.

settings.json is your settings for your project. You might put other dependencies in your settings.json

npm commands:

npm init will help you create your package.json

npm install name-of-package will install a package

npm install name-of-package --save will install a package and save a reference to this particuliar package in your settings.json file

Socket.io

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjULmG8fqc8 Daniel Shiffman about socket.io

in the server:

- require socket.io
- connect it to this particuliar webserver
- write function which handles new connections
- add code which can send messages to all other 
  clients

in the client:

- import socket.io (from src=....) in index.html
- open a connection to the server that has the
  socket server on it, in our javascript (e.g. 
  p5 sketch).
- add code which can send messages to server

This example is using port 3000

osc

osc library to communicate between Max and our node.js server

fs (filesystem)

used to create the client files som our src folder