NodeJS Notes For Professionals

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Getting started with Node.js

  • Section 1.1: Hello World HTTP server
  • Section 1.2: Hello World command line
  • Section 1.3: Hello World with Express
  • Section 1.4: Installing and Running Node.js
  • Section 1.5: Debugging Your NodeJS Application
  • Section 1.6: Hello World basic routing
  • Section 1.7: Hello World in the REPL
  • Section 1.8: Deploying your application online
  • Section 1.9: Core modules
  • Section 1.10: TLS Socket: server and client
  • Section 1.11: How to get a basic HTTPS web server up and running!

• Chapter 2: npm

  • Section 2.0: Basic
  • Section 2.1: Installing packages
  • Section 2.2: Uninstalling packages
  • Section 2.3: Setting up a package configuration
  • Section 2.4: Running scripts
  • Section 2.5: Basic semantic versioning
  • Section 2.6: Publishing a package
  • Section 2.7: Removing extraneous packages
  • Section 2.8: Listing currently installed packages
  • Section 2.9: Updating npm and packages
  • Section 2.10: Scopes and repositories
  • Section 2.11: Linking projects for faster debugging and development
  • Section 2.12: Locking modules to specific versions
  • Section 2.13: Setting up for globally installed packages

• Chapter 3: Web Apps With Express

  • Section 3.0: Basic
  • Section 3.1: Getting Started
  • Section 3.2: Basic routing
  • Section 3.3: Modular express application
  • Section 3.4: Using a Template Engine
  • Section 3.5: JSON API with ExpressJS
  • Section 3.6: Serving static files
  • Section 3.7: Adding Middleware
  • Section 3.8: Error Handling
  • Section 3.9: Getting info from the request
  • Section 3.10: Error handling in Express
  • Section 3.11: Hook: How to execute code before any req and after any res
  • Section 3.12: Setting cookies with cookie-parser
  • Section 3.13: Custom middleware in Express
  • Section 3.14: Named routes in Django-style
  • Section 3.15: Hello World
  • Section 3.16: Using middleware and the next callback
  • Section 3.17: Error handling
  • Section 3.18: Handling POST Requests

• Chapter 4: Filesystem I/O

  • Section 4.1: Asynchronously Read from Files
  • Section 4.2: Listing Directory Contents with readdir or readdirSync
  • Section 4.3: Copying files by piping streams
  • Section 4.4: Reading from a file synchronously
  • Section 4.5: Check Permissions of a File or Directory
  • Section 4.6: Checking if a file or a directory exists
  • Section 4.7: Determining the line count of a text file
  • Section 4.8: Reading a file line by line
  • Section 4.9: Avoiding race conditions when creating or using an existing directory
  • Section 4.10: Cloning a file using streams
  • Section 4.11: Writing to a file using writeFile or writeFileSync
  • Section 4.12: Changing contents of a text file
  • Section 4.13: Deleting a file using unlink or unlinkSync
  • Section 4.14: Reading a file into a Buer using streams

• Chapter 5: Exporting and Consuming Modules

  • Section 5.1: Creating a hello-world.js module
  • Section 5.2: Loading and using a module
  • Section 5.3: Folder as a module
  • Section 5.4: Every module injected only once
  • Section 5.5: Module loading from node_modules
  • Section 5.6: Building your own modules
  • Section 5.7: Invalidating the module cache

• Chapter 6: Exporting and Importing Module in node.js

  • Section 6.1: Exporting with ES6 syntax
  • Section 6.2: Using a simple module in node.js

• Chapter 7: How modules are loaded

  • Section 7.1: Global Mode
  • Section 7.2: Loading modules

• Chapter 8: Cluster Module

  • Section 8.1: Hello World
  • Section 8.2: Cluster Example

• Chapter 9: Readline

  • Section 9.1: Line-by-line file reading
  • Section 9.2: Prompting user input via CLI

• Chapter 10: package.json

  • Section 10.1: Exploring package.json
  • Section 10.2: Scripts
  • Section 10.3: Basic project definition
  • Section 10.4: Dependencies
  • Section 10.5: Extended project definition

• Chapter 11: Event Emitters

  • Section 11.1: Basics
  • Section 11.2: Get the names of the events that are subscribed to
  • Section 11.3: HTTP Analytics through an Event Emitter
  • Section 11.4: Get the number of listeners registered to listen for a specific event

• Chapter 12: Autoreload on changes

  • Section 12.1: Autoreload on source code changes using nodemon
  • Section 12.2: Browsersync

• Chapter 13: Environment

  • Section 13.1: Accessing environment variables
  • Section 13.2: process.argv command line arguments
  • Section 13.3: Loading environment properties from a "property file"
  • Section 13.4: Using dierent Properties/Configuration for different environments like dev, qa, staging etc

• Chapter 14: Callback to Promise

  • Section 14.1: Promisifying a callback
  • Section 14.2: Manually promisifying a callback
  • Section 14.3: setTimeout promisified

• Chapter 15: Executing files or commands with Child Processes

  • Section 15.1: Spawning a new process to execute a command
  • Section 15.2: Spawning a shell to execute a command
  • Section 15.3: Spawning a process to run an executable

• Chapter 16: Exception handling

  • Section 16.1: Handling Exception In Node.Js
  • Section 16.2: Unhanded Exception Management
  • Section 16.3: Errors and Promises

• Chapter 17: Keep a node application constantly running

  • Section 17.1: Use PM2 as a process manager
  • Section 17.2: Running and stopping a Forever daemon
  • Section 17.3: Continuous running with nohup

• Chapter 18: Uninstalling Node.js

  • Section 18.1: Completely uninstall Node.js on Mac OSX
  • Section 18.2: Uninstall Node.js on Windows

• Chapter 19: nvm - Node Version Manager

  • Section 19.1: Install NVM
  • Section 19.2: Check NVM version
  • Section 19.3: Installing an specific Node version
  • Section 19.4: Using an already installed node version
  • Section 19.5: Install nvm on Mac OSX
  • Section 19.6: Run any arbitrary command in a subshell with the desired version of node
  • Section 19.7: Setting alias for node version

• Chapter 20: http

  • Section 20.1: http server
  • Section 20.2: http client

• Chapter 21: Using Streams

  • Section 21.0: Streams Type
  • Section 21.1: Read Data from TextFile with Streams
  • Section 21.2: Piping streams
  • Section 21.3: Creating your own readable/writable stream
  • Section 21.4: Why Streams?

• Chapter 22: Deploying Node.js applications in production

  • Section 22.1: Setting NODE_ENV="production"
  • Section 22.2: Manage app with process manager
  • Section 22.3: Deployment using process manager
  • Section 22.4: Deployment using PM2
  • Section 22.5: Using dierent Properties/Configuration for different environments like dev, qa, staging etc
  • Section 22.6: Taking advantage of clusters

• Chapter 23: Securing Node.js applications

  • Section 23.1: SSL/TLS in Node.js
  • Section 23.2: Preventing Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
  • Section 23.3: Setting up an HTTPS server
  • Section 23.4: Using HTTPS
  • Section 23.5: Secure express.js 3 Application

• Chapter 24: Mongoose Library

  • Section 24.1: Connect to MongoDB Using Mongoose
  • Section 24.2: Find Data in MongoDB Using Mongoose, Express.js Routes and $text Operator
  • Section 24.3: Save Data to MongoDB using Mongoose and Express.js Routes
  • Section 24.4: Find Data in MongoDB Using Mongoose and Express.js Routes
  • Section 24.5: Useful Mongoose functions
  • Section 24.6: Indexes in models
  • Section 24.7: find data in mongodb using promises

• Chapter 25: async.js

  • Section 25.1: Parallel : multi-tasking
  • Section 25.2: async.each(To handle array of data effciently)
  • Section 25.3: Series : independent mono-tasking
  • Section 25.4: Waterfall : dependent mono-tasking
  • Section 25.5: async.times(To handle for loop in better way)
  • Section 25.6: async.series(To handle events one by one)

• Chapter 26: File upload

  • Section 26.1: Single File Upload using multer
  • Section 26.2: Using formidable module

• Chapter 27: Socket.io communication

  • Section 27.1: "Hello world!" with socket messages
• Chapter 28: Mongodb integration

  • Section 28.1: Simple connect
  • Section 28.2: Simple connect, using promises
  • Section 28.3: Connect to MongoDB
  • Section 28.4: Insert a document
  • Section 28.5: Read a collection
  • Section 28.6: Update a document
  • Section 28.7: Delete a document
  • Section 28.8: Delete multiple documents

• Chapter 29: Handling POST request in Node.js

  • Section 29.1: Sample node.js server that just handles POST requests

• Chapter 30: Simple REST based CRUD API

  • Section 30.1: REST API for CRUD in Express 3+

• Chapter 31: Template frameworks

  • Section 31.1: Nunjucks

• Chapter 32: Node.js Architecture & Inner Workings

  • Section 32.1: Node.js - under the hood & Node.js - in motion

• Chapter 33: Debugging Node.js application

  • Section 33.1: Core node.js debugger and node inspector

• Chapter 34: Node server without framework

  • Section 34.1: Framework-less node server
  • Section 34.2: Overcoming CORS Issues

• Chapter 35: Node.JS with ES6

  • Section 35.1: Node ES6 Support and creating a project with Babel
  • Section 35.2: Use JS es6 on your NodeJS app

• Chapter 36: Interacting with Console

  • Section 36.1: Logging

• Chapter 37: Cassandra Integration

  • Section 37.1: Hello world

• Chapter 38: Creating API's with Node.js

  • Section 38.1: GET api using Express
  • Section 38.2: POST api using Express

• Chapter 39: Graceful Shutdown

  • Section 39.1: Graceful Shutdown - SIGTERM

• Chapter 40: Using IISNode to host Node.js Web Apps in IIS

  • Section 40.1: Using an IIS Virtual Directory or Nested Application via
  • Section 40.2: Getting Started
  • Section 40.3: Basic Hello World Example using Express
  • Section 40.4: Using Socket.io with IISNode

• Chapter 41: CLI

  • Section 41.1: Command Line Options

• Chapter 42: NodeJS Frameworks

  • Section 42.1: Web Server Frameworks
  • Section 42.2: Command Line Interface Frameworks

• Chapter 43: grunt

  • Section 43.1: Introduction To GruntJs
  • Section 43.2: Installing gruntplugins

• Chapter 44: Using WebSocket's with Node.JS

  • Section 44.1 to 44.4

• Chapter 45: metalsmith

  • Section 45.1: Build a simple blog

• Chapter 46: Parsing command line arguments

  • Section 46.1: Passing action (verb) and values
  • Section 46.2: Passing boolean switches

• Chapter 47: Client-server communication

  • Section 47.1: /w Express, jQuery and Jade

• Chapter 48: Node.js Design Fundamental

  • Section 48.1: The Node.js philosophy

• Chapter 49: Connect to Mongodb

  • Section 49.1: Simple example to Connect mongoDB from Node.JS
  • Section 49.2: Simple way to Connect mongoDB with core Node.JS

• Chapter 50: Performance challenges

  • Section 50.1: Processing long running queries with Node

• Chapter 51: Send Web Notification

  • Section 51.1: Send Web notification using GCM ( Google Cloud Messaging System)

• Chapter 52: Remote Debugging in Node.JS

  • Section 52.1 to 52.3

• Chapter 53: Database (MongoDB with Mongoose)

  • Section 53.1: Mongoose connection
  • Section 53.2: Model
  • Section 53.3: Insert data
  • Section 53.4: Read data

• Chapter 54: Good coding style

  • Section 54.1: Basic program for signup

• Chapter 55: Restful API Design: Best Practices

  • Section 55.1: Error Handling: GET all resources

• Chapter 56: Deliver HTML or any other sort of file

  • Section 56.1: Deliver HTML at specified path