Professional Node.js: Building Javascript Based Scalable Software - Softcover

Teixeira, Pedro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118185463 ISBN 13: 9781118185469

Publisher: Wrox, 2012

Synopsis

Learn to build fast and scalable software in JavaScript with Node.js

Node.js is a powerful and popular new framework for writing scalable network programs using JavaScript. This no nonsense book begins with an overview of Node.js and then quickly dives into the code, core concepts, and APIs. In-depth coverage pares down the essentials to cover debugging, unit testing, and flow control so that you can start building and testing your own modules right away.

• Covers node and asynchronous programming main concepts
• Addresses the basics: modules, buffers, events, and timers
• Explores streams, file systems, networking, and automated unit testing
• Goes beyond the basics, and shares techniques and tools for debugging, unit testing, and flow control

If you already know JavaScript and are curious about the power of Node.js, then this is the ideal book for you.

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About the Author

Pedro Teixeira is a prolific open-source programmer and author of many Node.js modules. He is a founding partner of The Node Firm and a senior programmer at Nodejitsu Inc., the leading Node.js platform-as-a-service provider. He is also the author of the popular Node Tuts screencasts.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

From the Back Cover

Learn to build scalable software in JavaScript with Node.js

Node.js is a popular framework that allows you to build fast, highly scalable network programs using JavaScript. However, it comes with a learning curve. This in-depth guide walks you through the installation of the Node.js platform and then focuses on the essentials of creating and loading modules; using buffers to manipulate, encode, and decode binary data; simplifying event binding with the event emitter pattern; and more. Covering everything from scheduling the execution of functions using timers to creating and controlling external processes, this book gets you up and running and building and testing your own modules.

Professional Node.js:

• Addresses querying, reading from, and writing to files
• Explores streams, file systems, networking, and automated unit testing
• Details how to read and write streams of data
• Zeroes-in on building TCP and HTTP servers and clients
• Reviews using datagrams, testing and debugging modules, and controlling the callback flow
• Shows how to develop real-time web applications using Connect, Express, and Socket.IO
• Walks you through connecting to MySQL, CouchDB, and MongoDB

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Edition details

• Publisher: Wrox
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118185463
• ISBN 13: 9781118185469
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408