Your First Week With Node.js

by James Hibbard, Craig Buckler, Mark Brown, Nilson Jacques, James Kolce

Overview

While there have been quite a few attempts to get JavaScript working as a server-side language, Node.js (frequently just called Node) has been the first environment that's gained any traction. It's now used by companies such as Netflix, Uber and Paypal to power their web apps. Node allows for blazingly fast performance; thanks to its event loop model, common tasks like network connection and database I/O can be executed very quickly indeed.

From a beginner's point of view, one of Node's obvious advantages is that it uses JavaScript, a ubiquitous language that many developers are comfortable with. If you can write JavaScript for the client-side, writing server-side applications with Node should not be too much of a stretch for you.

This book offers aselection of beginner-level tutorials to privide you with an introduction to Node and its related technologies, and get you under way writing your first Node applications. It contains:

1. What Is Node and When Should I Use It?
2. Build a Simple Page Counter Service with Node.js
3. Understanding module.exports and exports in Node.js
4. Forms, File Uploads and Security with Node.js and Express
5. Working with Databases in Node
6. How to Build and Structure a Node.js MVC Application
7. Local Authentication Using Passport in Node.js
8. How to Debug a Node App
9. Node Testing for Beginners
10. How to Use SSL/TLS with Node.js
11. Configuring NGINX and SSL with Node.js
12. Using Docker for Node.js Development

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781098122829
Publisher:	SitePoint
Publication date:	04/24/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	532 KB

About the Author

I'm a web developer currently living in the sunny north of Germany. I enjoy coding in both JavaScript and Ruby and can often be found in SitePoint's JavaScript forum. When I'm not coding, I enjoy running.

Camilo is a husband, father, and software engineer living in Houston Texas. He's passionate about JavaScript and cyber-ing all the things.

Michael writes clean, readable and modular code. He loves learning new technologies that bring efficiencies and increased productivity to his workflow.

Mark is a front end web developer from Melbourne, Australia. He enjoys working on the web, appreciates good design and working along side talented people he can learn from. He has a particular interest in visual programming so have fun working with SVG and Canvas.

Full-stack JavaScript developer. Rubyist by passion. Amateur musician. Favorite quote? "Being a jack of all trades doesn't mean you're a master at none."

Jay is a Software Engineer and Writer. He blogs occasionally at Code Handbook and Tech Illumination.

Florian Rappl is an independent IT consultant working in the areas of client / server programming, High Performance Computing and web development. He is an expert in C/C++, C# and JavaScript. Florian regularly gives talks at conferences or user groups.