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Node.js in Action Paperback – November 28, 2013

by Mike Cantelon (Author), Marc Harter (Author), TJ Holowaychuk (Author),

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Summary

Node.js in Action is an example-driven tutorial that starts at square one and guides you through all the features, techniques, and concepts you'll need to build production-quality Node applications. You'll start by learning how to set up your Node development environment, including loading the community-created extensions. Next, you'll run several simple demonstration programs where you'll learn the basics of a few common types of Node applications. Then you'll dive into asynchronous programming, a model Node leverages to lessen application bottlenecks.

About this Book

JavaScript on the server? You bet. Node.js is a JavaScript server capable of supporting scalable, high-performance web applications. Using asynchronous I/O, the server can do more than one thing at a time, a key requirement for real-time apps like chat, games, and live statistics. And since it's JavaScript, you use the same language end to end.

Node.js in Action shows you how to build production-quality applications. Clear introductions of key concepts and example-by-example coverage take you from setup to deployment. You'll dive into asynchronous programming, data storage, and output templating, and interact with the filesystem to create non-HTTP applications like TCP/IP servers and command-line tools. Perfect for a web developer transitioning from Rails, Django, or PHP. Requires basic knowledge of JavaScript. No prior experience with Node.js needed.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

What's Inside

Set up Node and extensions
Grok asynchronous programming and the event loop
Examples including microblogging, IM, games, and more

About the Authors

As skilled practitioners, expert teachers and trainers, and contributors to the core framework, authors Mike Cantelon, Marc Harter, T.J. Holowaychuk, and Nathan Rajlich represent the best of the Node.js development community.

Table of Contents

PART 1 NODE FUNDAMENTALS

Welcome to Node.js
Building a multiroom chat application
Node programming fundamentals

PART 2 WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT WITH NODE

Building Node web applications
Storing Node application data
Connect
Connect's built-in middleware
Express
Advanced Express
Testing Node applications
Web application templating

PART 3 GOING FURTHER WITH NODE

Deploying Node applications and maintaining uptime
Beyond web servers
The Node ecosystem

Node.js in Action

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Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Manning Publications; 1 edition (November 28, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1617290572
ISBN-13: 978-1617290572
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About the Author

Mike Cantelon is a web programmer with 10 years of experience in bespoke and product-oriented web application development

Marc Harter is a passionate JavaScript developer with deep experience in event-style programming. He works daily on large scale projects including high availability real-time applications, streaming interfaces, and other data intensive systems.

T.J. Holowaychuk is a prolific open-source engineer who has backed Node since its infancy. He has also authored many robust Node.js modules, including the popular Express web framework, Cluster, Stylus, and Jade, among many others.

Nathan Rajlich is an active Node developer who has been working with Node since its early days. He has authored an impressive collection of Node modules including NodObjC and maintains a port of Node that runs on Apple's iOS.

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It is easy to read, easy to follow, and has a very good writing style.

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I'm most of the way through this now and I actually understand why I'd want to do certain things a certain way.

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I highly recommend this book for those getting started learning and working with Node.js.

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful

Server-Side Javascript Platform Clearly Explained

By ronstern314 on December 4, 2013

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I am a dinosaur from the days of batch processing with Cobol programs on IBM mainframes. I wanted to build a new modern website for the small manufacturing company I now work for. HTML5 and client-side Javascript were fairly easy to pick up, but I had little experience with the server side of things, especially when it comes to interactive versus batch. I was relieved to discover Node.js, which allows server-side programming in Javascript. (I wasn't sure I could handle learning ANOTHER language (like PHP) at this point.) The online documentation for Node.js and its extensions is not (at the time, at least) geared to beginners, so thank goodness for "Node.js in Action." The book is clear and each chapter builds upon the previous one, gradually introducing new abstractions and program sophistication. This book is pretty much a "must have" for programmers new to Node.js, but make sure you have a good grounding in Javascript before you pick it up.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

Good book for novice nodejs developers

By Perri Orlando on December 9, 2013

Format: Paperback

I've just started learning nodejs and this is not the first book I read about the topic.

I found out this is the best book I've read so far on the topic.
It starts from the very beginning and guide you through the whole development process.
It doesn't delve deep into low level details but I think this is due to target audience for this book.

It explains you the basics and there are a lot of good examples to get you started.

Nodejs is very extensible and there are a lot of useful packages. The book tries to cover the most useful in the daily usage.

The only bit I didn't like a lot is the development of the first application, it comes to early in the book and doesn't really help in understanding the language.

The rest of the book is well done. I'd advice this book to all nodejs novice who want to get ready to use it quickly.

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22 of 26 people found the following review helpful

A jumbled intro to Node

By scott on February 5, 2014

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I was really looking forward this book, but was disappointed. While the book has good code examples, there's very little coordination among chapters. It has 4 authors or so, and it shows. I was hoping for a more big picture view of Node (e.g., how best to organize a web app, or best practice as to what goes in /routes, app.js etc.) but the text reads like a compendium of short stories, one unrelated to the next. Buy this book for code snippets, not for the big picture.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

A great beginners guide to Node.js

By James Wright on November 19, 2013

Format: Paperback

I bought this book as part of my attempt to choose the best framework for replacing my aging and bloated JSF applications front end with.

My Javascript experience is reasonably limited so I found the first few chapters at times hard going to follow and understand as Nodes functional nature is a vastly different approach from the standard java applications I'm used to. However running the examples which were all relevant and easy to get working made it simple for me to eventually get my head round and I soon began to see the real power and flexibility that the Node framework and its functional non blocking structure has to offer.

I found the first section fascinating as I learnt the basics of Node but remember thinking at the time that it wasn't a viable candidate for my initial goal of finding a new UI framework for my existing application as it would involve an almost complete rewrite, and even after reading section 2 covering the Connect and Express modules which do make web applications simpler to implement that opinion still stands. That said though if I was to start writing a new application tomorrow I would definitely consider writing it in Node.

I thought the book itself as a guide to get a Node newbie like me up and running quickly whilst covering all the basics was excellent. It flowed well and kept me hooked until the end, I have tried all of the examples which whilst reasonably simple were all relevant and useful. In particular the shoutbox application created in chapter 9 I thought would give any application developer enough of a starting point to get up and running very quickly. This book has not only left me feeling confident that I could write Node applications straight away it makes me excited at the prospect of doing so.Read more ›

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

The good (very good Node.js intro), The Bad (poor code quality with no tests) and The Ugly (lots of outdated content) of Node.js

By vrto on August 2, 2014

Format: Paperback

There are so many things happening around Node.js nowadays that it is really hard to tell *where* to start from if you plan to jump on to node train. So I got myself this book and good news - it does exactly that! Nicely, slowly, from the scratch! Welcome to the journey of Node.js!

This book will guide you through the series of various use cases and walk you line-by-line through the code examples and patiently explain how Node works. Most of them get from very simple hello worlds to more complex problems (like full-blown app with photo uploading and pagination functionalities). On the other hand, some examples actually felt terrible - like the problem being solved was too artificial and uninteresting. In general I'd say that my feelings from the examples are a bit mixed.

Node.js has its own and unique ecosystem and you'll get through variety of very node friendly technologies. You'll see how to integrate Node.js with modern persistence solutions like MongoDB and Redis and more traditional SQL databases as well. You'll see how to use Node.js as your primary server-side framework and how to integrate it with popular web frameworks like Express or popular templating technologies like Mustache, Hogan.js, Jade etc. There is also chapter on 'Node ecosystem' and for some unknown reason it's the last chapter in the book. I suggest you read this chapter early to get the idea how does node.js taste out there in the wild.

One of the greatest advantages is that authors didn't forget about things like deployment, troubleshooting and clustering. There is a whole chapter on those things and it's definitely well wroth of reading!

Nothing's perfect though. Mistakes were made in this book as well.Read more ›

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The book gets the "ok" three star rating. Many reviewers have already captured the many coding issues which really can spin a beginners head. Read more

Published 1 month ago by pvtech

Node.js in Action - Job Well Done

WOW! My eyes have been opened. Kudos to Mike Cantelon for his work and dedication for taking the time to write the book. The more Node applications I write, the more I like it. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Jeff Damukaitis

Not enough practical use cases for me

Not enough practical use cases for me. This book goes through certain aspects of Node.js but doesn't show much practical code for me to use, it doesn't build up a node. Read more

Published 3 months ago by S. Williams

Great intro to Node.js

If you're looking for a great intro book for Node.js then you have found it.

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Walks you through starting from the ground all the way to creating a... Read more

Published 4 months ago by Drew R.

Solid book but already a bit outdated

This is a great book, and I would echo what others have said here. My only concern is that quite a few of the code examples are outdated, especially for newer versions of Express. Read more

Published 4 months ago by Tyler

Good introduction book.

Pretty good coverage on different parts in the node.js comp, With examples covering all phases of node.js app. Too much details on some basic stuff like http, ssl etc though. Read more

Published 4 months ago by Y. Huang

A fantastic node book

I really loved this book. It has a lot of good stuff.

Since node is quite low level, it teaches you how everything works underneath, things that you're not going to... Read more

Published 5 months ago by Jesus Rodriguez

Very Good Detail.

The author covers most of the NodeJS details. Every chapter detail is really interesting ,

Cons: The Book's content font size is very small , i belive the font size... Read more

Published 6 months ago by Bas

This book can be considered as All in One Node.js for begginers

Disclosure: I received free copy of e-book in exchange for review. This did not affect my view on the book. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Dominik

Fantastic intro to Node

While this book claims to be intended for those with intermediate JavaScript skills, I don't believe one needs more than a single run through Code Academy's JavaScript track to be... Read more

Published 7 months ago by Adam Ruddermann