Beginning Node.js 1st edition

Publisher Marketing: Beginning Node.js is your step-by-step guide to learning all the aspects of creating maintainable Node.js applications. You will see how Node.js is focused on creating high-performing, highly-scalable websites, and how easy it is to get started. Many front-end devs regularly work with HTML, CSS, PHP, even WordPress, but haven't yet got started with Node.js. This book explains everything for you from a beginner level, enabling you to start using Node.js in your projects right away. Using this book you will learn important Node.js concepts for server-side programming. You will begin with an easy-to-follow pure JavaScript primer, which you can skip if you're confident of your JS skills. You'll then delve into Node.js concepts such as streams and events, and the technology involved in building full-stack Node.js applications. You'll also learn how to test your Node.js code, and deploy your Node.js applications on the internet. Node.js is a great and simple platform to work with. It is lightweight, easy to deploy and manage. You will see how using Node.js can be a fun and rewarding experience - start today with Beginning Node.js. What you'll learn Learn how JavaScript can help you be highly productive as a full-stack developer How to set up an end to end Node.js development environment Learn how to create reusable and maintainable Node.js modules Patterns for sharing code between the server and the client Create Node.js restful web services and websites Store and retrieve your data using Document Databases How to test your Node.js applications How to deploy your applications on the internet Who this book is for Beginning Node.js is great for front-end developers looking to use Node.js in their websites. If you understand the basics of programming this book will teach you how you can leverage JavaScript to create full stack web-apps using Node.js. Node.js allows you to write code that runs both on the client and server. This allows you to reuse more code and deliver applications faster. From this book you will learn how to write maintainable server-side JavaScript using Node.js, how to test your code and deploy it on the internet. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Setting up for Node.js DevelopmentChapter 2: Understanding Node.jsChapter 3: Core Node.jsChapter 4: Node.js Packages Chapter 5: Events and Streams Chapter 6: Getting Started with HTTPChapter 7: Introducing ExpressChapter 8: Persisting DataChapter 9: Front-End BasicsChapter 10: Simplifying CallbacksChapter 11: DebuggingChapter 12: TestingChapter 13: Deployment and Scalability"

Contributor Bio:  Syed, Basarat Basarat Ali Syed is a senior developer and the go-to guy for frontend at PicnicSoftware (http: //picnicsoftware.com/) in Melbourne, Australia. He studied Master of Computing at Australian National University and graduated with high distinction in all courses. He is a familiar face at developer meetups and conferences in Australia and has been a speaker at events like Alt. NET, DDDMelbourne, MelbJS, and Melbourne Node.js, amongst others. He is deeply passionate about web technologies and strongly believes that whenever given a choice, one should always bet on JavaScript. He is a respected member of the TypeScript community and works on the DefinitelyTyped team (https: //github.com/DefinitelyTyped). He believes Node.js can do for the back-end what Chrome did for the front-end. In his spare time he enjoys bodybuilding, cycling and maintains a YouTube channel for helping fellow developers (http: //youtube.com/basaratali). You can easily find him on twitter/basarat and github/basarat.