Learning Node: Moving to the Server-Side, 2nd Edition

Take your web development skills from browser to server with Node—and learn how to write fast, highly scalable network applications on this JavaScript-based platform. With this hands-on guide, you’ll quickly master Node’s core fundamentals, gain experience with several built-in and contributed modules, and learn the differences and parallels between client- and server-side programming.

This updated second edition gets you up to speed on Node’s event-driven, asynchronous I/O model for developing data-intensive applications that are frequently accessed but computationally simple. If you’re comfortable working with JavaScript, this book provides numerous programming and deployment examples to help you take advantage of server-side development with Node.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Node Environment
Chapter 2. Node Building Blocks: the Global Objects, Events, and Node’s Asynchronous Nature
Chapter 3. Basics of Node Modules and Npm
Chapter 4. Interactive Node with REPL and More on the Console
Chapter 5. Node and the Web
Chapter 6. Node and the Local System
Chapter 7. Networking, Sockets, and Security
Chapter 8. Child Processes
Chapter 9. Node and ES6
Chapter 10. Full-stack Node Development
Chapter 11. Node in Development and Production
Chapter 12. Node in New Environments