Phonegap: "standalone" app with node.js

I want to write a Phonegap app with a local node.js server. Is this possible? With node.js i can use a redis-client and sdl functionality.

This is Tim Caswalls talk about node.js and phonegap but i can not find any more info about it.

I think you should be looking into these

https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

http://appjs.com/

here is an example have a look at clipconverter.cc desktop it uses appjs as far as i know