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Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere, 2nd Edition

  • Length: 320 pages
  • Edition: 2
  • Publisher:
  • Publication Date: 2012-09-04
  • ISBN-10: 1119962595
  • ISBN-13: 9781119962595
  • Sales Rank: #1906172 (See Top 100 Books)
Description

Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere (Smashing Magazine Book Series)
Learn to make more efficient apps, with just one language!

Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere equips you with the necessary tools to understand Node.js and its uses in developing efficient web apps. With more traditional web servers becoming obsolete, having knowledge on servers that achieve high scalability and optimal resource consumption using Node.js is the key to your app development success. Teaching you the essentials to making event-driven server-side apps, this book demonstrates how you can use less space and take less time for communication between web client and server.

  • Contains numerous hands-on examples
  • Explains implementation of real-time apps including Socket.IO and HTML5, and WebSockets
  • Addresses practical Node.js advantages from specific design choices
  • Demonstrates why knowledge and use of JavaScript is beneficial
  • Includes an interactive online component with sample chapters
  • Explains components of stand out apps including brevity and benchmarks

Looking to enhance your abilities even further? Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere makes developing server-side apps accessible with its focus on JavaScript, open source, and easy-to-use language.

Table of Contents

Part I: Getting Started: Setup and Concepts
Chapter 1: The Setup
Chapter 2: Javascript: An Overview
Chapter 3: Blocking and Non-blocking IO
Chapter 4: Node JavaScript
Part II: Essential Node APIs
Chapter 5: CLI and FS APIs: Your First Application
Chapter 6: TCP
Chapter 7: HTTP
Part III: Web Development
Chapter 8: Connect
Chapter 9: Express
Chapter 10: WebSocket
Chapter 11: Socket.IO
Part IV: Databases
Chapter 12: MongoDB
Chapter 13: MySQL
Chapter 14: Redis
Part V: Testing
Chapter 15: Code Sharing
Chapter 16: Testing

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