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

Follow Benjamin Lupton on Twitter and GitHub.

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​