How To Code in Node.js

Book Details

Authors	David Landup, Marcus Sanatan
Publisher	DigitalOcean
Published	2020
Edition	1st
Paperback	418 pages
Language	English
ISBN-13	9781735831725
ISBN-10	1735831727
License	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Book Description

Node.js is a popular open-source runtime environment that can execute JavaScript outside of the browser. The Node runtime is commonly used for back-end web development, leveraging its asynchronous capabilities to create networking applications and web servers. Node is also a popular choice for building command line tools.

In this book, you will go through exercises to learn the basics of how to code in Node.js, gaining skills that apply equally to back-end and full stack development in the process.

By the end of this book you will be able to write programs that leverage Node's asynchronous code execution capabilities, complete with event emitters and listeners that will respond to user actions. Along the way you will learn how to debug Node applications using the built-in debugging utilities, as well as the Chrome browser's DevTools utilities. You will also learn how to write automated tests for your programs to ensure that any features that you add or change function as you expect.

This book is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA), which means that you are free to copy, distribute, and modify it, as long as you credit the original author, don't use it for commercial purposes, and share any adaptations under the same license.