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I built this. Girlfriend needed this to organise her christmas party and we couldn't really find a nice one on the internet.. So I built it myself. Mostly for her and as an exercise for myself (I learnt the basics of Angular and NodeJS along the way), but then my designer friend came up with the design and we put it live. Hope you enjoy it.

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> we couldn't really find a nice one on the internet

Really? When I needed one Elfster was pretty easy to find.

Landing page looks nice though.

What resources did you use to learn NodeJS?

It's been a long journey of playing around and never finishing small projects until I started this and then it suddenly clicked. I had a bit of PHP and Rails experience prior to this, but Node was pretty much new to me, except for the JS part. The whole async mindset got me in to trouble a couple of times on this project.

The courses on Codeschool helped me tremendously, and this was fun to play around with: https://github.com/rvagg/learnyounode. I read a lot of blogs and some books (will get links later if you want), but mostly it was just trying until it clicked.

Cool thanks!

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