Node.js for Developers

Full Stack Javascript Development with Node.js

Recommended Reading

• Unix Philosophy and Node.js
• Writing small & reusable Modules
• Awesome NPM
• Awesome Node.js
• Awesome TypeScript
• The Art of Node
• Node School
• NPM Developer Guide
• Common.js Module Specs
• Getting Started with Node and NPM
• Interactive Guide for exploring package.json
• 10 Cool Things You Probably didn't realize npm could do
• Semantic Versioning
• Semantic Versioning & Node.js
• You Don't Know Node.js - Quick Intro to Core Features
• Node.js for Developers - Guide for Node.js Developers

Modules

• Publishing NPM Packages for Developers
• Choosing a licence for your Open Source Project
• Node.js Modules Documentation
• Node.js Module Pattern - simple examples
• Understanding module.exports and exports in Node.js
• An overview of Node: Modules and npm
• Creating and Publishing a Node.js Module
• Creating Node.js modules
• How to write Node.js Modules
• Modules 1.1 Wikipedia

Simple Module Example

index.js:

const pkg = require("./package.json");

module.exports = () => pkg;

run.js:

const pkg = require("./index");

console.log('Name: ' + pkg().name + ' Version: ' + pkg().version);

Asynchronous Javascript

Promises

• MDN Promises
• Promises in Node.js with Q – An Alternative to Callbacks
• JavaScript Promise API
• Awesome Promises
• Bluebird.js

Callbacks

• Callbacks MDN
• You Don't Know JS: Async & Performance

Frameworks

• Node.js Framework Overview - Hand-picked registry of Node.js frameworks.
• Koa - A new web framework designed by the team behind Express, which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs.
• Express - A minimal and flexible web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
• Feathers - A minimal and flexible microservice framework built in the spirit of Express.
• Hapi - A rich framework for building applications and services.
• LoopBack - Powerful framework for creating REST APIs and easily connecting to backend data sources.
• Meteor - An ultra-simple, database-everywhere, data-on-the-wire, pure-Javascript web framework. (You might like awesome-meteor)
• SailsJS - An MVC web framework with a modern twist, supporting WebSockets, streams, and a data-driven API.
• Restify - A node framework built specifically to enable you to build correct REST web services.
• Interfake - Rapid prototyping framework for making mock HTTP APIs, with a Node.js, command-line and HTTP interface.
• Derby - MVC framework, making it easy to write realtime, collaborative applications that run in both Node.js and browsers.
• Restberry - Framework for setting up RESTful JSON APIs, applied to your database models without needing to write any code.
• Catberry - Framework with Flux architecture, isomorphic web-components, and progressive rendering.
• ThinkJS - Framework with ES2015+ support, WebSockets, REST API.

Flat File CMS

• Hexo - A fast, simple & powerful blog framework
• Raneto - Markdown powered Knowledgebase for Nodejs
• MetalSmith - An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator.
• WinterSmith - Flexible, minimalistic, multi-platform static site generator built on top of node.js.

Blog Systems

• Ghost - Open Source Blogging Platform.

Debugging

• atom-node-debugger - Debugger for Atom
• iron-node - Debug your Code with Chrome Developer Tools.
• node-inspector - Debugger based on Blink Developer Tools
• node - Node's build in Debugger Utility
• Vorlon.js - Remotely debugging and testing your JavaScript

Examples:

node-inspector

npm install -g node-inspector - install global
node-debug --debug-brk index.js - starts debugging and stop in first line
debugger - inside the script write debuggger to set a breakpoint. also its possible inside the debugger window to set breakpoints by clicking in the line.

Dependencies

• david - Node.js module that tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.

Time Safer

• live-server - A simple development http server with live reload capability.

Security

• Node.js Security Tutorial - Howto defend your applications against the most common attack vectors.
• Node.js Security Checklist
• Node.js Security Tips
• nsp - Command line interface to the Node Security Platform.
• http authentication

Language Support

• ES6 Support - Node ECMAScript 2015 (ES6) Support and beyond
• Node Releases - Download Site for the different Node Versions
• Node with Babel - How to use Babel with Node
• node.green - Lists of the current ES2015 JS Support for the different Note Versions

Travis CI

• Building a Node.js project
• validate your .travis.yaml

Semantic Version Examples

• ~1.2.3 installs all the patches (>=1.2.3 <1.3.0)
• ^1.5.1 installs patch and minor versions (>=1.5.1 <2.0.0)

Docker Images

official Node.js

• docker pull node - official Node.js

NodeOs

• docker pull nodeos/nodeos - official NodeOS

Flat File CMS

• docker pull gugu/raneto - Raneto

Blog

• docker pull ghost - official ghost

NoSQL

• docker pull mongo - official MongoDB
• docker pull redis - official Redis

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