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Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

By : Cummings
Book Image

Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

By: Cummings

Overview of this book

Node.js is an open source, cross-platform runtime environment that allows you to use JavaScript to develop server-side web applications. This short guide will help you develop applications using JavaScript and Node.js, leverage your existing programming skills from .NET or Java, and make the most of these other platforms through understanding the Node.js programming model. You will learn how to build web applications and APIs in Node, discover packages in the Node.js ecosystem, test and deploy your Node.js code, and more. Finally, you will discover how to integrate Node.js and .NET code.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
15
Index

Summary

In this chapter, we have written a multi-environment module following the universal module definition pattern, created an npm package for a library and a command-line tool, and packaged Node.js code for the browser using Browserify.

This demonstrates the flexibility of Node.js and the range of use cases for JavaScript and npm beyond just server-side code. In the final chapter, we'll look at the broader context around Node.js. We'll see some of the newer languages and upcoming language features for the platform and how Node.js interacts with other platforms like .NET.