Appendix

Thank you to General Assembly in October 2012 and Codemaster Institute in April 2016 for hosting this training.

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Resources

Talks

• Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl - a bit aged, but still good

• Evented Ruby vs Node.js by Jerry Cheung - good comparison about how node and ruby's approach to asynchrony differs

• Programming Style and Your Brain - on how error prevention is better than cleverness (the reason why I love CoffeeScript for the most part but hate CoffeeScript's implicit returns)

Further Learning

• Node School - balupton's answers (don't cheat)

• Joyent's Guides

• Exception Handling in Node

• Debugging & Profiling Node.js

• Comprehensive Node.js Training

• Node Fail Safe

Recommended Modules

• Async

  • TaskGroup

  • Async.js

• Testing

  • Joe

  • Chai

• Querying

  • QueryEngine

• Templating

  • ECO to HTML

  • Stylus to CSS

  • CoffeeScript to JavaScript

  • Babel for ESNext to ES2015

• Servers

  • Connect

  • Express

  • Session Middlewares

• Configuration Files

  • CSON

  • YAML.js

• Utilities

  • Lodash

  • SafePS

  • SafeFS

  • Eachr

  • Extendr

  • Watchr

  • Request

• CLI

  • Caterpillar

  • Vorpal

• Robotics

  • NodeCopter