Book Description:
Node.js is an open source, cross-platform runtime environment that allows you to use JavaScript to develop server-side web applications.
This short guide will help you develop applications using JavaScript and Node.js, leverage your existing programming skills from .NET or Java, and make the most of these other platforms through understanding the Node.js programming model. You will learn how to build web applications and APIs in Node, discover packages in the Node.js ecosystem, test and deploy your Node.js code, and more. Finally, you will discover how to integrate Node.js and .NET code.
What you will learn
- Understand which problems Node.js best solves
- Write idiomatic JavaScript and Node.js code
- Build web applications and command-line tools
- Minimise complexity and efficiently solve difficult problems
- Test and deploy Node.js applications
- Work with persistent data
- Implement real-time client-server applications
- Integrate .NET and Node.js code