Node.js in Action

01/29/2014 · No Responses

Node.js in Action is an example-driven tutorial that starts at square one and guides you through all the features, techniques, and concepts you’ll need to build production-quality Node applications. You’ll start by learning how to set up your Node development environment, including loading the community-created extensions. Next, you’ll run several simple demonstration programs where you’ll learn the basics of a few common types of Node applications. Then you’ll dive into asynchronous programming, a model Node leverages to lessen application bottlenecks.

JavaScript on the server? You bet. Node.js is a JavaScript server capable of supporting scalable, high-performance web applications. Using asynchronous I/O, the server can do more than one thing at a time, a key requirement for real-time apps like chat, games, and live statistics. And since it’s JavaScript, you use the same language end to end.

Node.js in Action shows you how to build production-quality applications. Clear introductions of key concepts and example-by-example coverage take you from setup to deployment. You’ll dive into asynchronous programming, data storage, and output templating, and interact with the filesystem to create non-HTTP applications like TCP/IP servers and command-line tools. Perfect for a web developer transitioning from Rails, Django, or PHP. Requires basic knowledge of JavaScript. No prior experience with Node.js needed.

What’s Inside

Set up Node and extensions
Grok asynchronous programming and the event loop
Examples including microblogging, IM, games, and more

Table of Contents
Part 1: Node fundamentals
Chapter 1. Welcome to Node.js Built on JavaScript
Chapter 2. Building a multiroom chat application
Chapter 3. Node programming fundamentals

Part 2: Web application development with Node
Chapter 4. Building Node web applications
Chapter 5. Storing Node application data
Chapter 6. Connect
Chapter 7. Connect’s built-in middleware
Chapter 8. Express
Chapter 9. Advanced Express
Chapter 10. Testing Node applications
Chapter 11. Web application templating

Part 3: Going further with Node
Chapter 12. Deploying Node applications and maintaining uptime
Chapter 13. Beyond web servers
Chapter 14. The Node ecosystem

Appendix A. Installing Node and community add-ons
Appendix B. Debugging Node
Appendix C. Extending and configuring Express