Node. js learning path

Tutorials

• NodeSchool. io interactive lessons
• Hello World
• Hello World Web Server
• Node. js guide
• Build a blog with Node. js, express and mongodb
• Node. Js Tutorials At Project 70
• Node. js for Beginners
• Learn Node. js Completely and with Confidence

  Videos

  • Node tuts
  • Introduction to Node. js with Ryan Dahl
  • Node. js: Asynchronous Purity Leads to Faster Development
  • Parallel Programming with Node. js
  • Server-side JavaScript with Node, Connect & Express
  • Node. js First Look
  • Node. js with MongoDB
  • Ryan Dahl's Google Tech Talk

    Screencasts

    • Learn All The Nodes
    • NodeTuts
    • NodeCasts

      Books

      • The Node Beginner Book
      • Mastering Node. js
      • Up and Running with Node. js
      • Node. js in Action
      • Smashing Node. js: JavaScript Everywhere
      • Node. js & Co. (in German)
      • Sam's Teach Yourself Node. js in 24 Hours
      • Most detailed list of free JavaScript Books
      • Mixu's Node Book
      • Node. js the Right Way: Practical, Server-Side JavaScript That Scale
      • Beginning Web Development with Node. js

        Courses

        • Real Time Web with Node. js

          Blogs

          • The Node. js blog
          • How To Node
          • DailyJS
          • Nodejitsu blog
          • Ryan Wilcox's Whitepaper
          • Devthought

            Podcasts

            • NodeUp

              JavaScript resources

              • Crockford's videos (must see !)
              • Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners
              • JavaScript garden
              • JavaScript Patterns book
              • JavaScript: The Good Parts book

                Node Modules

                • Search for registered node. js modules
                • Wiki List on Github/Joyent/Node (start here last !)
                • A completely biased and incomplete selection of useful Node modules

                  Other

                  • JSApp. US-like jsfiddle, but for node. js
                  • Node with vjet js (for Eclipse IDE)
                  • Production sites with published source:
                    • Node Knockout Hackathon (source)
                    • Useful Node. js Tools, Tutorials and Resources
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                      First, learn the core concepts of Node. js:

                      • You'll want to understand the asynchronous coding style that Node encourages.

                      • Async! = Concurrent. Understand Node's event loop!

                      • Node uses CommonJS-style require () for code loading; it's probably a bit different from what you're re used.

                      • Familiarize yourself with Node's standard library.

                        Then, you're going to want to see what the community has to offer:

                        The gold standard for Node package management is NPM.

                        • It is a command line tool for managing your project's dependencies.

                        • Make sure you understand how Node and NPM interact with your project via the node_modules folder and package. json.

                        • NPM is also a registry of pretty much every Node package out there

                          Finally, you're going to want to know what some of the more popular packages are for various tasks:

                          Useful Tools for Every Project:

                          • Underscore contains just about every core utility method you want.
                          • CoffeeScript makes JavaScript considerably more bearable, while also keeping you out of trouble!
                            • Caveat: A large portion of the community frowns upon it. If you are writing a library, you should consider regular JavaScript, to benefit from wider collaboration.

                              Unit Testing:

                              • Mocha is a popular test framework.
                              • Vows is a fantastic take on asynchronous testing, albeit somewhat stale.
                              • Expresso is a more traditional unit testing framework.
                              • Node-unit is another relatively traditional unit testing framework.

                                Web Frameworks:

                                • Express is by far the most popular framework.
                                • Meteor bundles together jQuery, Handlebars, Node. js, websockets, mongoDB, and DDP and promotes convention over configuration without being a Rails clone.
                                • Tower is an alias action of top of Express that aims to be a Rails clone.
                                • Geddy is another take on web frameworks.
                                • RailwayJS is a Ruby-on-Rails custom red MVC web framework.
                                • SailsJS is a realtime MVC web framework.
                                • Sleek. js is a simple web framework, bucket upon express. js.

                                  Web Framework Tools:

                                  • Jade is the HAML/Slim of the Node world
                                  • EJS is a more traditional templating language.
                                  • Don't forget about Underscore's template method!

                                    Networking:

                                    • Connect is the Rack or WSGI of the Node world.
                                    • Request is a very popular HTTP request library.
                                    • Socket. io is handy for building WebSocket servers.

                                      Command Line Interaction:

                                      • Optimist makes argument parsing a joy.
                                      • Commander is another popular argument parser.
                                      • Colors makes your CLI output pretty.