The aim of The Node Beginner Book is to get you started with developing applications for Node.js, teaching you everything you need to know about advanced JavaScript along the way in 69 pages.
The Node Beginner Book is a great introduction to Node.js for the beginner. It doesn’t cover a lot of advanced subjects, but it’s a great starting point.
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Table of Contents
About
Status
Intended audience
Structure of this document
JavaScript and Node.js
JavaScript and You
A word of warning
Server-side JavaScript
“Hello World”
A full blown web application with Node.js
The use cases
The application stack
Building the application stack
A basic HTTP server
Analyzing our HTTP server
Passing functions around
How function passing makes our HTTP server work
Event-driven asynchronous callbacks
How our server handles requests
Finding a place for our server module
What’s needed to “route” requests?
Execution in the kingdom of verbs
Routing to real request handlers
Making the request handlers respond
Serving something useful
Handling POST requests
Handling file uploads
Conclusion and outlook
The Node Beginner Book
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