Overview

Sources

• github.com - 3 projects. noobaa-util shared by noobaa and noobaa-core.
• github application for mac/windows is very helpful.
• sublime text - great text editor with extensions
• install sublime package control
• use package control - ctrl+shift+p (Win, Linux) or cmd+shift+p (OS X)
• install the HTML/CSS/JS Prettify package

Server

• nodejs.org - javascript server platform
• npmjs.org - for package management
• bower.io - for packages not found/updated on npm
• mongoosejs.com - mongodb object modeling
• expressjs.com - web server routing and request-response parsing.

Web

• angularjs.org - MVC and much more for front end scripting
• lesscss.org - css preprocessor for better code reuse
• browserify.org - bundle with nodejs style require() for the browser

Desktop

• node-webkit - desktop platform with nodejs and webkit html5

Build

• package.json - the project config file.
• npm install - fetch and prepare all the dependencies into node_modules/ folder.
• npm start - custom hook, in our case we call gulp to handle.
• gulp - build tasks with many extensions. similar to grunt.

Heroku

• heroku
• foreman start - execute application by Procfile
• heroku toolbelt

Database

• mongodb
• mongohq (rebranded as compose.io)

More info

noobaa app project has README with instructions to start developing for ubuntu.