Mastering Node.js: Expert techniques for building fast servers and scalable, real-time network applications with minimal effort

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eBook Nov 2013 346 pages 1st Edition

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Master the latest techniques for building real-time, big data applications, integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other network services
Tame asynchronous programming, the event loop, and parallel data processing
Use the Express and Path frameworks to speed up development and deliver scalable, higher quality software more quickly

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Node.js is a modern development stack focused on providing an easy way to build scalable network software. Backed by a growing number of large companies and a rapidly increasing developer base, Node is revolutionizing the way that software is being built today. Powered by Google's V8 engine and built out of C++ modules, this is a JavaScript environment for the enterprise.Mastering Node.js will take the reader deep into this exciting development environment. Beginning with a comprehensive breakdown of its innovative non-blocking evented design, Node's structure is explained in detail, laying out how its blazingly fast I/O performance simplifies the creation of fast servers, scalable architectures, and responsive web applications.Mastering Node.js takes you through a concise yet thorough tour of Node's innovative evented non-blocking design, showing you how to build professional applications with the help of detailed examples.Learn how to integrate your applications with Facebook and Twitter, Amazon and Google, creating social apps and programs reaching thousands of collaborators on the cloud. See how the Express and Path frameworks make the creation of professional web applications painless. Set up one, two, or an entire server cluster with just a few lines of code, ready to scale as soon as you're ready to launch. Move data seamlessly between databases and file systems, between clients, and across network protocols, using a beautifully designed, consistent, and predictable set of tools.Mastering Node.js contains all of the examples and explanations you'll need to build applications in a short amount of time and at a low cost, running on a scale and speed that would have been nearly impossible just a few years ago.

Who is this book for?

If you've ever built a web page and would like to build network software using the language and style you already know, Node will make that process simple, and even fun. If you understand what a server is, what a client is, and how to write JavaScript, you are already halfway to mastering Node.js!

What you will learn

Discover how Node uses Google s V8 engine to create high-speed JavaScript on the server
Use events to create non-blocking systems with high throughput
Create secure servers across all major network protocols
Manage thousands of concurrent clients without slowing down
Handle data, files, and protocol streams with ease
Leverage Node s module system to design sane applications that are easy to extend
Optimize and debug server-side JavaScript for increased performance
Learn scaling techniques and parallelize operations across multiple cores

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Publication date, Length, Edition, Language, ISBN-13

Publication date : Nov 25, 2013

Length: 346 pages

Edition : 1st

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781782166337

Vendor :

Node.js Developers

Category :

Web Development

Languages :

JavaScript

Concepts :

Server Side Web Development

Tools :

Node.js

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Like the title of the book suggests, if you're looking to dive deeper into node.js, this publication is an ideal companion – tackling more important and practical higher-level concepts.

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Jay Brizle Aug 21, 2015

It is well written and explains things well. I will say that this is the book that you want if you are trying to learn core Node and aren't looking to use all of the extra packages/modules that other books and things seem to introduce very early to get you up and running building something "cool" from the start. That is my real reason for even writing a review, just to let others know. It starts off seeming like you have exposure to Node already I would say though. After spending a lot of time over the last month with Node and reading, watching and attempting some things I was able to understand what was being said from the beginning of the book that I recognized I would be clueless what he was talking about had I not. Maybe that's just me though. But he does rewind and spends chapters going over the base things of Node well. My opinion is this is one of the books to open when you have made your way around Node at least a bit and are ready or curious to understand some things further. Or as a mixin with the other things your attempting to learn Node with. It then goes into real world in production concerns, which is cool. He even touches on things like how you can configure the underlying V8 engine for your Node installment from the command-line. This does not start with a "Hello, Node" example or introduce a bunch of Node packages that you also need to go run off and learn the api to. It is, mostly, about working with core Node and gaining understanding there. If you are wanting to understand Node internals a bit and wanting to build from there this is a good book.

ELIAS POLITAKIS Oct 22, 2015

An excellent book on the internals of Node.js that covers almost EVERY aspect for producing scalable Network Servers, but sadly not in the depth I was expecting. Still, the book covers libuv Event Loop, node.js processes and forks, CPU clustering with HTTP Server example, Socket I/O and Streams, Session Management tools such as Redis, Reverse Proxies and RabbitMQ, Errors and Exceptions, Amazon Web Services and a little of Native C++ Addons. The book's figures are not brilliant as the author fails big-time to produce understandable drawings (I had to scratch my head a lot until I could understand them) and it does not get into technologies such as MemCached or Redis too much. Still, you can get up-to-speed with Node.js in just 48 hours and seek other material from there. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for newbies into node.js advanced programming.

Michael Benin Jan 22, 2015

I recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn NodeJS. The examples are relevant and up to date. I really enjoyed reading about scaling techniques and learning how Node uses V8. The only thing missing is a reference to bluebird for a Promise library, other than that, everything the book promises in "What you will learn from this book" on the back is true :)

Jools Feb 11, 2014

This book is indeed about 'mastering' node. It is a book for the professional with a need to understand where the true strengths of the framework lie. Above all it dispenses with the notion that node can't 'do' multi-CPU machines and elegantly explains why the node solution will trump the old multi-threaded blocking options.I was relieved to find there is no 'introduction' to the javascript language (for example). The book assumes you are familiar with node already. Indeed you are really straight 'in there' with e.g. Streams2, scaling servers and child process forking; which is just what I wanted as there is a paucity of documentation and discussion about node.js out there, even on Stackoverflow. This book contains quite a lot more information and guidance than I could find on the internet, so for me it is a good buy. As usual with all tech books, the program examples don't render well on Kindle, so this time I bought the hardcopy !

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