Get Programming with Node.js

• Fast-paced
• Practical lessons
• Hands-on guide

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Node supports scalable, high-performance applications with easy asynchronous communication, an event-driven mindset, and a vast ecosystem of tools and modules. Node can handle the real-time response rates that games, chat sites, and statistical services need, and you get to program everything in JavaScript.

Why use several languages for a web application when you only need one? Node.js is a server-side platform and runtime that readers can use to build full stack web applications entirely in JavaScript!

Get Programming with Node.js teaches readers to write server-side code in JavaScript using Node.js. In 34 fast-paced, fun, and practical lessons, readers discover how to extend their existing JavaScript skills to write back-end code for their web applications.

Get Programming with Node.js teaches you to build web servers using JavaScript and Node. In this engaging tutorial, you’ll work through eight complete projects, from writing the code for your first web server to adding live chat to a web app.

Your hands will stay on the keyboard as you explore the most important aspects of the Node development process, including security, database management, authenticating user accounts, and deploying to production. You’ll especially appreciate the easy-to-follow discussions, illuminating diagrams, and carefully explained code!

Written for developers who know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No prior experience with Node.js is required.