January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 22m
English
This book is for intermediate to advanced developers who want to learn how to write asynchronous JavaScript for the server using Node.js. Some prior JavaScript experience will definitely help, but you don’t have to be an expert.
The book proceeds in three parts, outlined here briefly.
Part I is about getting you up to speed on Node.js 8. You’ll write Node.js programs that use core modules—and a few external modules as well—to do things like interact with the filesystem, spin up a cluster of worker processes, and manage network connections.
Chapter 1, Getting Started, introduces the Node.js event loop, explaining how it empowers Node.js to be highly parallel and single-threaded ...
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