November 2020
Intermediate to advanced
388 pages
11h 1m
English
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Foreword
In the past decade, Node.js has gone from novelty to the de facto platform for new applications. During that period, I have had the opportunity to help thousands of Node.js developers from around the world orient themselves and find their paths to success. I have seen Node.js used for everything. Really: someone even built a low-level bootable operating system with Node.js.
At the SFNode meetup I created in San Francisco, we have a star speaker who has spoken more than anyone else. You guessed it: Thomas Hunter II, the author of this book. While you may be able to do anything with Node.js, there are some really practical things that particularly benefit from being done with Node.js. In today’s cloud-first world, most systems have become distributed systems. In this book and in the countless talks I’ve had the pleasure to see Thomas give at SFNode and around the world, pragmatism reigns supreme. This book is filled with experience-tested, hands-on guidance to get you from where you are today to where you need to be tomorrow.
The JavaScript language enables us as developers to create at the speed of thought. It requires little ceremony, and the code we write is usually simple enough that writing it by hand is more efficient than generating it. This beautiful simplicity of JavaScript is perfectly matched with Node.js. Node, as we frequently refer to it, is intentionally minimal. Ryan Dahl, its creator, wrote Node to build an application server that was an order of magnitude ...
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