Node.js Essential Training (2015) [repost]

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Node. js is a powerful tool for controlling servers, building web applications, and creating event-driven programs. And it takes JavaScript—a language familiar to all web developers—out of the browser. With Node. js, you can build applications that run on your laptop or even the cloud. Learn the essentials of Node. js and start creating your own JavaScript applications in this introductory training course. Alex Banks shows how to install Node. js on a Mac or PC and work with the Node. js core: the global object, event loop, http module, and file system. Then he covers reading and writing data, streaming data, making http requests, and working with the node package manager (npm). In the final chapters, he shows how to start sessions on web servers, communicate with web servers and clients with WebSockets, use the Express framework to develop applications, and test and debug Node. js code. Want to speed up your Node. js workflow? Check out the tutorials on automating tasks with Grunt and npm scripts.

Topics include:
* What is Node.js?
* Installing Node.js
* Understanding the global object and global timing
* Importing the core modules
* Handling events
* Creating child processes
* Reading, writing, and removing files
* Working with file streams
* Making http requests
* Serving files and JSON data
* Installing npm, the node package manager
* Working with Express, the web server framework
* Using WebSockets
* Testing and debugging Node.js code
* Working with Grunt and Browserify
* Automating tasks with npm scripts