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Introduction To Node.js

Creating high-performance server-side applications in JavaScript

This course covers the Node.js system for creating server-side applications using JavaScript. It's appropriate for developers who are familiar with JavaScript and want to use Node.js to create high-performance evented applications. In the course, students will get hands-on experience setting up and configuring Node.js applications, understanding the evented architecture provided by Node.js, performing input/output and working with files, Web and network access, database access, unit texting, and more.

Instructor

Van Nguyen
I am the COO (and acting CTO) of Spoondate.com. We've built our entire stack in JavaScript - it is JS all the way down. Thanks to Node.js and modules, we've been able to build more, faster, and more securely than before.

Course Outline

What is Node.js and why should you care
- Intro to Evented & Asynchronous Programming
- Versions of Node and how to cope
- Where to go for help if you get stuck
Installation and Setup
- Installing Node (Windows, OSX, Linux)
- Using the interactive shell
- Basics of scripting in Node
JavaScript Review
- Variables & Data structures
- Control Flow
- Functions, Objects, & Prototypes
- Events & Timers
- Subtleties & Gotchas
  - Scoping
  - Formatting
- Style Guide
Basics of Node.js
- Intro examples
  - Hello World Script
  - Hello World Server
  - Asynchronous Hello World Server
- Global and Sys
- I/O and Files
- Events
- Buffers & Streams
- Child processes: forking, spawning
- Math & Cryptography
- Web & Network access (focus primarily on HTTP/HTTPS)
- Web Crawling and Parsing
- Web Frameworks: Connect/Express
- Async Database Drivers
- Comet/Push Systems with Socket.io
- Templating Systems
- Unit tests
Practical Stuff
- Basic: Patterns: Project Structure
- Patterns: Nesting vs Middleware
- Functional programming vs OOP vs Hybrid
Creating your own module
- Basic: Modules & OOP
- Basic: NPM and module management
Where to go next?
- CoffeeScript
- ncurses
- Backbone.js integration

Prerequisites

Basic PC skills and access to a computer (Windows, Macintosh or Linux)
Basic Web skills
Introduction to JavaScript or equivalent experience

Duration and Format

Four weeks. Taught online. Instructor-led.

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Courses are comprised of online and offline readings, weekly quizzes, online discussion topics, and hands-on coding exercises that are evaluated by the instructor. You can post questions about the coursework at any time and the instructor will provide guidance. You're never stuck on your own.

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