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Node.js By Example

By : Krasimir Tsonev
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Node.js By Example

By: Krasimir Tsonev

Overview of this book

If you are a JavaScript developer with no experience with Node.js or server-side web development, this book is for you. It will lead you through creating a fairly complex social network. You will learn how to work with a database and create real-time communication channels.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
12
Index

Preface

Node.js is one of the present day's most popular technologies. Its growing community is known to produce a large number of modules every day. These modules can be used as building blocks for server-side applications. The fact that we use the same language (JavaScript) on both the server- and client-side make development fluent.

This book contains 11 chapters that contain a step-by-step guide to building a social network. Systems such as Facebook and Twitter are complex and challenging to develop. It is nice that we will learn what Node.js is capable of, but it is going to be much more interesting if we do that within a concrete context. The book covers basic phases such as the architecture and management of the assets' pipeline, and it discusses features such as users' friendship and real-time communication.