Book Image

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 installed Node.js, saw how to interact with it from the command line, and started using it to write web applications. We learned about Express and how we can structure an application using routes and middleware.

Although we've seen some code in this chapter, we haven't really explored the JavaScript syntax in detail. Before adding more functionality to our application, we should make sure that we're up to speed with JavaScript. This is the subject of the next chapter.