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Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

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Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

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)
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Index

Chapter 2. Getting Started with Node.js

This chapter will get you up and running with Node.js. You'll see how quick this can be and how easy it is to start writing web applications. You'll also choose a development environment for working with Node.js. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Installing Node.js
  • Writing our first Node.js web application
  • Setting up our development environment