Your First Week With Node.js: Edition 2

James Hibbard · Craig Buckler · Mark Brown · Nilson Jacques · James Kolce · Paul Orac · M. David Green · Florian Rappl

abr 2020 · SitePoint Pty Ltd

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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

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Craig is a freelance developer, author, and speaker who never shuts up about the web. He started coding in the 1980s when applications had to squeeze into a few kilobytes of RAM. His passion for the Web was ignited in the mid 1990s when 28K modems were typical and 100KB pages were considered extravagant. Over the past decade, Craig has written 1,200 tutorials for SitePoint as web standards evolved. Despite living in a technically wondrous future, he has never forgotten what could be achieved with modest resources.

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.

Nilson is a full-stack web developer who has been working with computers and the web for over a decade. A former hardware technician, and network administrator. Nilson is now currently co-founder and developer of a company developing web applications for the construction industry. You can also find Nilson on the SitePoint Forums as a mentor.

James Kolce is a self-taught 21-year-old designer and web developer based in Mexico. Lead developer of Concise CSS, a minimalist and extensible framework to build websites quickly with good design. He writes a blog called The Brain of James Kolce, were he puts some of the knowledge he has acquired over the years.

David has worked as a Web Engineer, Writer, Communications Manager, and Marketing Director at companies such as Apple, Salon.com, StumbleUpon, and Moovweb. His research into the Social Science of Telecommunications at UC Berkeley, and while earning MBA in Organizational Behavior, showed him that the human instinct to network is vital enough to thrive in any medium that allows one person to connect to another.

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.