Duration of Course: About 2 weeks

Prerequisite: JavaScript knowledge of 5/10

This is the age of the JavaScript developer, and it will only get better, particularly because of the widespread adoption of HTML5; the abandonment of Flash; the ubiquity of mobile devices; the recent rise of Meteor.js; and the popularity, stability, and robustness of Node.js, which allows developers to use JavaScript on the server.

Node.js, a revolutionary technology, is the immediate and near future of modern web application development with JavaScript as the sole server-side language. In this article, I provide you with a comprehensive road map for learning Node.js; this road map has worked for me and I am confident it will work for you. You will learn Node.js completely and you should approach this course with confidence because you are only 2 to 3 weeks away from building impressive modern web applications in short time.



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Why Learn Node.js

JavaScript is the language of the web today and unquestionably for the near future because there is no known alternative to JavaScript in the works. The ECMAScript organization has been moving full pace ahead with advancing the JavaScript language.

With a solid understanding of Node.js, you will be able to use JavaScript to develop real-time, fast, scalable, data-driven web applications, and you will have the requisite knowledge to quickly adapt to any of the emerging, cutting-edge JavaScript technologies like Derby.js and Meteor.js. Incidentally, I have recently written a Learn Meteor Properly article and roadmap.



Unlike just a couple of years ago when you needed to know a true server-side language (such as PHP, Rails, Java, Python, or Perl) to develop scalable, dynamic, database-driven web applications, today you can do as much and more with JavaScript alone, as I noted in my Learn JavaScript Properly article.

How Not to Learn Node.js

Although a number of Node.js tutorials exist online, most lack the comprehensiveness necessary for learning Node.js properly. Moreover, you can easily spend a frustrating fortnight trying to find and discern the worthwhile tutorials from the fruitless ones. I read a good bit of Node.js tutorials when I learned Node.js a few years ago. I also wasted a good bit of time on many of them. I have done the hard work so you don’t have to go digging for Node.js tutorials. Don’t go to Amazon and choose a Node.js book based on the reviews. Even though this is the customary way to decide on a book, because Node.js is still a new platform, most of the books don’t have a large enough sample of reviews to provide you with a clear picture of the book’s usefulness and value. And collectively, the reviews are not great. If you go to Amazon.com and type “Node.js,” you will see at least 21 Node.js books. While I have only read five of them (the five best of the lot), I found a pattern in the books that were not good: the authors do not appear to have a vast and rich understanding of the Node.js architecture and platform, and the books appear to be a collection of mediocre tutorials aggregated for the book. Of the five Node.js books I have read, two are good, though I recommend only one. The two worthwhile books are Professional Node.js: Building JavaScript Based Scalable Software, by Pedro Teixera; and Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere, by Guillermo Rauch. I recommend Pedro Teixera’s book, but you can learn quite a bit from Guillermo Rauch’s book, too, so you should get both, if you are serious about developing with Node.js

Book Review

As of this writing, there are only two reviews of Professional Node.js: Building JavaScript Based Scalable Software (Pedro Teixera’s book) on Amazon.com; one of them is excellent (5 stars) and the other is a bad review–it is best if you read it yourself. This is the bad review of the book: I have no idea if this book is well written or not because the formatting is so bad as to make it virtually unreadable in some places. As of this writing, there are only two reviews of Professional Node.js: Building JavaScript Based Scalable Software (Pedro Teixera’s book) on Amazon.com; one of them is excellent (5 stars) and the other is a bad review–it is best if you read it yourself. This is the bad review of the book: Obviously, the author of this review has not read the book and his review is completely about the formatting, which I have not experienced. I would give the book 5 stars because it is by far the best Node.js book I have read. Also note that I know neither of the authors of the two books I recommend in this article.

Resources

Get a copy of The Node Beginner Book by Manuel Kiessling. It is a tiny book: it is really a Node.js tutorial. The book sells in a bundle with another book, Hands-on Node.js written by the aforementioned Pedro Teixeira, for $9.99. But interestingly, I didn’t find the companion book (by Pedro) to be as useful, so you don’t need it and we will not use it in our study of Node.js. But since you get both books for $9.99, take the deal and run. Get the Node Beginner Book here: Get a copy of:

— Paperback Version: Professional Node.js: Building Javascript Based Scalable Software , by Pedro Teixera.

— Kindle Version: Professional Node.js: Building Javascript Based Scalable Software , by Pedro Teixera.

Road map to Mastering Node.js