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Beginning Node.js is your step-by-step guide to learning all the aspects of creating maintainable Node.js applications. You will see how Node.js is focused on creating high-performing, highly-scalable websites, and how easy it is to get started. Many front-end devs regularly work with HTML, CSS, PHP, even WordPress, but haven´t yet got started with Node.js. This book explains everything for you from a beginner level, enabling you to start using Node.js in your projects right away.
Using this book you will learn important Node.js concepts for server-side programming. You will begin with an easy-to-follow pure JavaScript primer, which you can skip if you´re confident of your JS skills. You´ll then delve into Node.js concepts such as streams and events, and the technology involved in building full-stack Node.js applications. You´ll also learn how to test your Node.js code, and deploy your Node.js applications on the internet.
Node.js is a great and simple platform to work with. It is lightweight, easy to deploy and manage. You will see how using Node.js can be a fun and rewarding experience - start today with Beginning Node.js .

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Chapter 1: Setting up for Node.js Development

Chapter 2: Understanding Node.js

Chapter 3: Core Node.js

Chapter 4: Node.js Packages

Chapter 5: Events and Streams

Chapter 6: Getting Started with HTTP

Chapter 7: Introducing Express

Chapter 8: Persisting Data

Chapter 9: Front-End Basics

Chapter 10: Simplifying Callbacks

Chapter 11: Debugging

Chapter 12: Testing

Chapter 13: Deployment and Scalability

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Basarat Ali Syed is a senior developer and the go-to guy for frontend at PicnicSoftware (http://picnicsoftware.com/) in Melbourne, Australia. He studied Master of Computing at Australian National University and graduated with high distinction in all courses. He is a familiar face at developer meetups and conferences in Australia and has been a speaker at events like Alt.NET, DDDMelbourne, MelbJS, and Melbourne Node.js, amongst others. He is deeply passionate about web technologies and strongly believes that whenever given a choice, one should always bet on JavaScript. He is a respected member of the TypeScript community and works on the DefinitelyTyped team (https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped). He believes Node.js can do for the back-end what Chrome did for the front-end. In his spare time he enjoys bodybuilding, cycling and maintains a YouTube channel for helping fellow developers (http://youtube.com/basaratali). You can easily find him on twitter/basarat and github/basarat.

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