Jump Start Node.js

by Don Nguyen

HIGHLIGHTS

•A concise and hands-on introduction to using Node.js that can be read in a weekend
•Based around a practical and easily understandable a fully-functional stock price monitoring application.
•Includes complete working code
•Low price point

DESCRIPTION
This short book provides readers with a fun, breezy and yet practical introduction to Node.js – an increasingly popular framework that is designed from the ground up for writing real time, scalable Internet applications with JavaScript. Node.js is being touted by some as the successor to Rails as it is highly productive and overcomes some of the performance issues associated with Ruby, and provides a unifying language all the way from the front end to the back end
This book is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to the framework, or an in-depth programming tutorial, rather it will give readers a good grounding in Node.js, outline what they need to get going, including installing all necessary software, and give them the confidence to experiment on their own.
The book should be built around a working, real-life example a stock price monitoring application. This is used to demonstrate the concepts outlined in the book in a practical way. This application is fun and easy to understand, yet sufficiently complex to be able to be used to demonstrate a range of programming concepts.
The content follows the typical SitePoint it's clear, approachable and very easy-to-follow, and also has a sense of fun.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Don Nguyen's background is in building real time trading systems to analyze every single transaction for multiple markets spanning many years. Applications had to be fast, scalable and fault tolerant. These are exactly the same principles that need to be applied to modern day web applications.

Genres: Programming

176 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Kian.ting · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book to follow instructions on how to build the an app, but dont have explanations for beginners, you have to do your own home work.

[Matt · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall, decent intro/overview to Node.js (I think). Inconsistency in code formatting made it hard to track changes sometimes, but not really a huge deal. I could've used more discussion on why code was written as it was or why certain decisions were made, but still a great offering for the Node newbie.

[Delhi Irc]

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[Itang Sanjana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Liked it.