Node.js Essentials LiveLessons

Learn to write performant back-end applications in JavaScript by leveraging the Node.js runtime. Shaun Wassell teaches JavaScript developers how to write and run server-side JavaScript applications for the powerful Node.js runtime. It includes topics such as working with the file system, creating web servers, installing, using, and publishing NPM packages, Google V8 engine, testing, and much more.

Description

Several years ago, it wasnt possible to write JavaScript programs for the back-end. JavaScript was strictly limited to running in a browser, and if a developer wanted to write back-end software, they had little choice but to learn another programming language, such as PHP. Now, that has all changed. Thanks to Node.js, which allows JavaScript to be run outside the browser, JavaScript developers can write web-servers, server-side scripts, and any number of other useful back-end programs.

This LiveLessons video shows developers how to write and run server-side JavaScript applications for the powerful Node.js runtime.

The code repository for this LiveLesson can be accessed at https://github.com/shaunwa/node-course

Skill Level

Intermediate

What You Will Learn

Learn to quickly and easily write performant back-end applications in JavaScript by leveraging the Node.js runtime:
Write useful server-side programs using modern JavaScript
Build Node.js web servers using several different frameworks
Deploy your Node.js applications so that they can be accessed from anywhere
Create and publish an open-source NPM package

Shaun also covers more advanced features for developers, such as:

Maximizing the performance of your Node.js programs by learning about how Nodes V8 runtime works
Interfacing with databases in Node

Who Should Take This Course?

Front-end developers/engineers
Full-stack developers/engineers
Back-end developers/engineers
JavaScript developers/engineers

Course Requirements

Prerequisites:

Working knowledge of JavaScript.
Some experience working on either the front- or back-end of a web application, but this is not a requirement.