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Node.Js: Novice to Ninja

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Novice to Ninja is your hands-on guide to learning everything needed to build a professional web application using Node.js, the hugely popular open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment. You'll start off by getting familiar with the basics - installation and building your first apps - before moving onto more advanced concepts, including debugging, asynchronous programming, using Express.js, working with databases, deployment, and more. You'll finish by building a complete multi-player real-time quiz application. The book includes access to 25 high quality tutorial videos, containing 1.5 hours of content.

410 pages, Paperback

Published July 12, 2022

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Craig Buckler

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December 2, 2022
Provide some basic usages of using Node for building server, but not advanced cases.
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December 28, 2023
Way better than any paid online courses. Loved the section about worker threads. However, just a few areas where it fell short of a perfect score.

Chapter 6 (Processing Form Data with Express) could have been enhanced by using Postman examples to illustrate the concept of handling form data from a front-end page, instead of relying on EJS, which may not be to everyone's liking.

Given my personal preference against EJS, I believe Chapter 11 (Web Sockets) would have been more reader-friendly if it used simple HTML files in conjunction with native JavaScript functions to demonstrate dynamic value handling, rather than EJS.

The last lesson chapter - Useful Node.js APIs - feels kind of crammed. Each sub-section could have been a chapter of their own, making the book more comprehensive. At this point, it was necessary to head over to the author's GitHub repo instead of the book being a complete, stand-alone resource.
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