The Node Craftsman Book

Become a Node.js craftsman.

Key Features

• This book will help readers to dive deeper into software development with Node.js and JavaScript
• Takes a craftsman approach to Node.js and object-orientation and test-driven development
• Crafts many of the small details of Node.js and through to fully-fledged web applications with REST

Book Description

What you will learn

• How to connect to databases like MongoDB and MySQL from your Node.js application
• How to unit tests and end-to-end tests for your code
• When and how to leverage migrations for setting up a continuous deployment workflow
• Detailed insight into how the Node Package Manager, NPM works
• How object-orientation actually works in JavaScript
• Ways to keep your code fast and efficient using asynchronous and non-blocking operations
• How to use and create event emitters
• How to use REST frameworks to write full-fledged web applications
• How to integrate Node.js with Angular

Who this book is for

This book is written to help you if you’re working with Node.js already, but you want to move your craft to the next level with Node.js, so some working knowledge of Node.js is of course already assumed, so that we can look at the work of crafting applications with Node.