Description

Javascript is a really general purpose programming language, and can be used to build a variety of applications from desktop tools to fully-functional, robust enterprise applications.

This is an intensive hands-on workshop to fast track full-fledged enterprise application development on the NodeJS platform. The first of a 3 part series on NodeJS, focusing on establishing a strong foundation in server side Javascript.

You’ll walk away from this 2-day course confident in your ability to:

• Build applications using one of the most widely used Javascript server side engines
• Build middleware using the Express Framework
• Build automation using GruntJS
• Use Javascript as a full-stack programming language

Day 1

• Getting Started with Node.js
  • Setup Node js
  • Hello Node
  • Modules and NPM
  • Accessing built-in modules
  • Using NPM to find 3rd party modules
  • Maintaining projects using NPM command
  • Creating Modules with getters and setters
  • Understanding module caching and scopes
• Events and Streams
  • Node’s event loop
  • Events and EventEmitter class
  • Inheriting from EventEmitter
  • Readable and Writable Streams, the Pipe function
  • Piping Between Streams
  • Writing asynchronous code
• Accessing the Local System
  • Process Object
  • Interacting with the file system
  • Buffers
  • OS Module
• Interacting with the Web
  • Making web requests in Node
  • Web server in Node
  • Real time interaction with Socket.IO

Day 2

• Using Express Framework
  • Starting Express applications
  • Handling GET requests returning JSON
  • Navigating large datasets
  • Modifying data through PUT requests
• Sessions and Databases
  • Connecting to MongoDB via Mongoose
  • Designing schemas for collections in Mongoose
  • Querying MongoDB collections
  • Persisting Express sessions through MongoDB and mongo-connect
• Scaling node application
  • The Child Process module
  • Exec function
  • Spawn function
  • Fork function
• Overview of Grunt JS
  • Installing Grunt
  • Configuring Tasks
  • Creating Grunt tasks
  • Writing custom Grunt task
• Overview of MEAN stack
  • Install MEAN stack
  • Hands-on case study building web application on MEAN stack