Learning resources, tutorials, and tools for node. js

This article compiles from a stack overflow how to start learning about node. js's wiki post, a resource list that browses close to 600,000 times, thousands of collections, and tops. Specially organized to publish here, which added some Chinese references.

Learning Guides and Tutorials

• Nodeschool.io Interactive Course

• Node's art (node profile)

• Hello World

• Hello World Web Server

• node. js Guide

• Create a blog with node. js, Express and MongoDB

• Node+mongodb 100 minutes to build station Raiders

• node. JS guidelines for Project 70 rollout

• node. JS Getting Started

• Learn all about node. js

Developer site

• Joyent's Node developer site

Video

• Node Guide

• Node+mongodb 100 minutes to build station Raiders

• Ryan Dahl Introduction to node. js

• Parallel development with node. js

• Use node, Connect & Express to do JS service-side development

• On node. js

• node. js and MongoDB

• Live Web using node. js

Screencasts

• Comprehensive Learning Nodes

• Nodetuts

• Nodecasts

• Creating a service-side MVC application using node. js and Express

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 Hours

• Most detailed list of free JavaScript Books

• Mixu ' s Node book

• node. js the right way:practical, Server-side JavaScript

• Beginning Web Development with node. js

• Node WEB Development

Course

• Real-time Web development for node. js

• Essential node. js from DevelopMentor

Blog

• node. JS Official Blog

• How to Node

• Dailyjs

• Nodejitsu Blog

• Ryan Wilcox ' s whitepaper

• Devthought

JavaScript courses

• Crockford ' s videos (must see!)

• Refer to this article, "Learning JavaScript online courses and Guides"

• Essential JavaScript Design Patterns for Beginners

• JavaScript Garden

• JavaScript Patterns Book

• Javascript:the Good Parts Book

Node module

• 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

Additional tools and resources

• 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

• Runnable.com–like Jsfiddle, but for server side as well

• Getting Started with node. js on Heroku

Unit Test

• 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 Framework

• 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 abstraction of top of the Express that is aims to be a Rails clone.

• Geddy is Another take on web frameworks.

• Railwayjs is a ruby-on-rails inspired MVC web framework.

• Sailsjs is A Realtime MVC web framework.

• Sleek.js is A simple web framework, built upon express.js.

• Hapi is A configuration-centric framework with built-in support for input validation, caching, authentication , etc.

• Koa koa is a new web framework designed by the team behind Express, which aims to be a smaller, more expressiv E, and more robust foundation for Web applications and APIs.

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!

Internet

• 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 tools

• Optimist makes argument parsing a joy.

• Commander is another popular argument parser.

• Colors makes your CLI output pretty.

Learning resources, tutorials, and tools for node. js