no it's not. it's a .NET clone of sinatra. it's a web framework. it has little to nothing to do with node.js. although .net have pretty powerful multiprocessing and async routines, and can therefore be connected to node.js without too much effort.
When I open the vsix file, all I get is a hexdump. I also tried installing it as an add-in, but it doesn't appear to accept vsix files.
The goal is to get past step one of these instructions: https://github.com/NancyFx/Nancy/wiki/Introduction
How to make this work, pretty please?
you can work around that issue if you make an empty asp.net project and then use nuget to install-package nancy.hosting.aspnet
at least i think so, i haven't been doing .net in a while
http://rubygems.org/gems/albacore/versions/1.0.0.rc.1 (for the command to install albacore), and
https://github.com/NancyFx/Nancy/wiki/Running-Nancy-on-your-...
This works on Fedora and probably other distributions as well, though this uses HTTP which might be less optimal than FastCGI with Fos. I got Fos to compile with Mono but it's not usable yet, it can't find IAppBuilder in my "console" application no matter what references or using directives I add. Nowin compiles cleanly but the example projects don't, so it'll take some effort to get it to work. Things are progressing, though. But I really can't recommend anyone use Mono for web development as it stands.
Nancy and Sinatra are typically used for smaller sites. They're based around routes, controllers, and views but they don't (for better or worse) lock you into an MVC project structure like ASP.Net MVC or Rails.
Web API, by comparison, is pretty much "just for implementing a web-based API" and not something you'd want to use for a user-facing web application that serves up HTML pages.
[1] - http://servicestack.net [2] - https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack