Developing Web-Applications with Node.js

Introduction to Node.js

• What is Node and what is it not
• Node.js Features
• Our first Node.js script: Hello World
• Hello Server: Building a web server in Node.js
• Debugging node applications

Building your Stack

• Pulling in other libraries
• Building custom libraries
• Asynchronicity and callbacks
• Blocking vs. non-blocking I/O
• Working within the event loop

Modular JavaScript with Node.js

• Writing Modular JavaScript with Node.js
• Core Modules
• Installing Packages
• Publishing Packages

Avoiding Common Pitfalls with Async.js

• Introducing the Async problem
• Async.js Library to the rescue
• Collections
• Flow Controllers

Working with the File System

• Sync and Async operations
• Files manipulations
• Folder manipulations
• Putting the file-system module together Async.js

Data Access 01 – Mysqli

• Mysqli 2.0
• Managing DB connections
• CRUD example

Command-line Interfaces

• The built-in REPL
• Custom REPL
• Using external libraries
• Receive command-line arguments
• Build command-line tools

Unit-Testing Node Applications

• Introduction to unit testing
• Testing with Mocha and Should
• Suits, specs & Reporters
• Testing Synchronous code
• Testing Asynchronous code

Building Web Applications with the Express Framework

• Introduction to Express, installation and basic setup
• Application configuration
• Routing
• Views and Templating options
• Persistence with Cookies, In-Memory Sessions and session-stores.
• Authenticating users with passport local
• Social Auth with Passport.js

Data Access 02 – MongoDB

• Tooling up – installing mongo, clients and drivers.
• Mongoose Schemas
• CRUD operations
• Single Page Applications with Express, Mongoose and React

Real-time Communication

• Introduction to real-time applications
• Listen & emit
• Readable streams – streaming chunked data
• Piping Readable streams to Writable streams
• Sockets on the Server and the Client
• Build a chat application

Advanced

Nodejs Microservices Architecture

Experience in OOP with basic knowledge of JavaScript