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Practical Node.js: Building Real-World Scalable Web Apps
Learn how to build a wide range of scalable real-world web applications using a professional development toolkit. If you already know the basics of Node.js, now is the time to discover how to bring it to production level by leveraging its vast ecosystem of packages.With this book, you'll work with a varied collection of standards and frameworks and see how all those pieces fit together.
Practical Node.js takes you from installing all the necessary modules to writing full-stack web applications. You'll harness the power of the Express.js and Hapi frameworks, the MongoDB database with Mongoskin and Mongoose. You'll also work with Pug and Handlebars template engines, Stylus and LESS CSS lanaguages, OAuth and Everyauth libraries, and the Socket.IO and Derby libraries, and everything in between.
This exciting second edition is fully updated for ES6/ES2015 and also covers how to deploy to Heroku and AWS, daemonize apps, and write REST APIs. You’ll build full-stack real-world Node.js apps from scratch, and also discover how to write your own Node.js modules and publish them on NPM. Fully supported by a continuously updated source code repository on GitHub and with full-color code examples, learn what you can do with Node.js and how far you can take it!
What You'll Learn
Manipulate data from the mongo consoleUse the Mongoskin and Mongoose MongoDB librariesBuild REST API servers with Express and HapiDeploy apps to Heroku and AWSTest services with Mocha, Expect and TravisCIImplement a third-party OAuth strategy with EveryauthWeb developers who have some familiarity with the basics of Node.js and want to learn how to use it to build apps in a professional environment.
Practical Node.js takes you from installing all the necessary modules to writing full-stack web applications. You'll harness the power of the Express.js and Hapi frameworks, the MongoDB database with Mongoskin and Mongoose. You'll also work with Pug and Handlebars template engines, Stylus and LESS CSS lanaguages, OAuth and Everyauth libraries, and the Socket.IO and Derby libraries, and everything in between.
This exciting second edition is fully updated for ES6/ES2015 and also covers how to deploy to Heroku and AWS, daemonize apps, and write REST APIs. You’ll build full-stack real-world Node.js apps from scratch, and also discover how to write your own Node.js modules and publish them on NPM. Fully supported by a continuously updated source code repository on GitHub and with full-color code examples, learn what you can do with Node.js and how far you can take it!
What You'll Learn
Manipulate data from the mongo consoleUse the Mongoskin and Mongoose MongoDB librariesBuild REST API servers with Express and HapiDeploy apps to Heroku and AWSTest services with Mocha, Expect and TravisCIImplement a third-party OAuth strategy with EveryauthWeb developers who have some familiarity with the basics of Node.js and want to learn how to use it to build apps in a professional environment.
529 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 9, 2014
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March 1, 2016
Best (of two) books about Node.js that I've read. Much more useful, clear, and organized than "Node.js The Right Way". As expected of books about a bleeding edge technology, it's already a bit outdated, but the concepts and ideas are still valid and invite you to read even further.
Did Not Finish
December 6, 2023Read a few chapters, skimmed a couple, skipped the rest. A decade after publication, there are better and up-to-date sources of node.js info.
July 7, 2025
I was using Node.js a lot (against my will sometimes) and wanted to make sense of what in da hell was going on. This is a pretty good book for that.
September 29, 2014
Taken from an Amazon review:
Without a doubt the best Node book available. At last a writer that makes the effort to ensure the reader experience is a hassle free and learning one. The biggest gripe I have with software development books is the lack of updates. If a book is older than six months none of the examples work and you spend 95% of your time trying to figure out why the code doesn't work. If publishers made sure their books were up to date then this would be a great advantage over piracy. The thing I like about this book is that every step of the way the writer has shown the version of all middleware used to ensure that it works i.e. instead of "npm install -g express-generator" he uses "npm install -g express-generator@4.0.0". A simple thing that makes a big difference.
Writing style is simple and to the point. The examples are great and real World stuff along with little gems thrown in here and there.
10 out of 10 for this! I'll be looking out for his next book!
Without a doubt the best Node book available. At last a writer that makes the effort to ensure the reader experience is a hassle free and learning one. The biggest gripe I have with software development books is the lack of updates. If a book is older than six months none of the examples work and you spend 95% of your time trying to figure out why the code doesn't work. If publishers made sure their books were up to date then this would be a great advantage over piracy. The thing I like about this book is that every step of the way the writer has shown the version of all middleware used to ensure that it works i.e. instead of "npm install -g express-generator" he uses "npm install -g express-generator@4.0.0". A simple thing that makes a big difference.
Writing style is simple and to the point. The examples are great and real World stuff along with little gems thrown in here and there.
10 out of 10 for this! I'll be looking out for his next book!
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