Node.js Essential Training

- Hello. I'm Alex Banks. Welcome to Node.js Essential Training. Node.js allows us to build javascript applications that run outside the scope of the browser which means you could run javascript either locally on your laptop or in a large cluster on the Cloud. Node.js works across platforms. It is lightweight, fast and the node package manager, npm, gives us access to the largest source of open source libraries in the world. In this course, we're going to dive into this technology and see what it's all about.

This course starts off by defining how Node.js works with this event driven, asynchronous, non-blocking IO model. We'll discover how an event loop is at the core of Node.js and how single threaded applications can handle many connections quickly. We're diving deep into the Node core to discover what we can do with Node.js before ever installing our first npm. We'll focus on streams, the file system, the HTTP module, the guts, the stuff that is used to make it all happen. Once we understand how to build HTTP servers with the Node core, we'll look at Express, a web server module that will help us rapidly develop web server apps.

We're going to finish off this course by introducing new you to the concepts that you will need to work professionally with Node.js. We will focus heavily on testing and advanced testing with Mocha and Chai. And we will also take a look at how you can improve your workflow through automation with tools like Grunt and npm scripts. We have a lot to cover, so welcome, thank you for attending and let's get started.