Merge branch 'master' of github.com:ServiceStack/ServiceStack.UseCases

Author: desunit

NodeStackProxy/README.md

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-# ServiceStack + Node.js demo project
+# Self-hosted ServiceStack + Node.js demo project
+
+The project demonstrates how you can easily build single page applications (SPA) using [node.js](http://nodejs.org/download/) with Express, Jade templates and geared with ServiceStack as a backend API engine. The application works for Windows and Linuxes. To simplify development node.js used a proxy to route all "/api" requests to SericeStack but for heavy loaded sites you can use [nginx](http://wiki.nginx.org/Main). 
+
+## Instructions
+
+Make sure that [node.js and npm](http://nodejs.org/download/) is installed and path variables are set correctly (`Windows`: install it with `.msi`, `Linux/Mac`: http://howtonode.org/how-to-install-nodejs) 
+
+Both commands should return version:
+
+```
+node --version
+v0.10.2
+
+npm --version
+1.2.15
+```
+
+[Site](https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.UseCases/tree/master/NodeStackProxy/Service) has a dependency on [Redis](http://redis.io/download). Make sure that it's installed locally and listening port 6379. If you have Redis on another server then just change it in [app.config](https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.UseCases/blob/master/NodeStackProxy/Service/app.config#L5).
+
+### Windows
+
+[run.cmd](https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.UseCases/blob/master/NodeStackProxy/run.cmd) builds Service.csproj and executes `Service/bin/Debug/Service.exe` you have to see the following console:
+
+```
+Listening: http://*:8090/api/
+Press any key to stop program
+```
+
+Then script download `node-modules` for node.js and runs the server for port: `8080`. 
+
+That's it, you can see Backbone.JS with Todo SPA application geared with ServiceStack. 
+
+### Linux & mono
+