NodeJS-1

The repository for the Web Programming with NodeJS course at http://hackbulgaria.com

Course Program, split over weeks

week0:

• We are going to start using node and npm and nvm by doing simple console-based NodeJS applications.
• We are going to show Node Inspector for Node debugging

week1:

• What is Node all about? Single threaded app & Event Loop & Thread pools
• First steps in HTTP with express

week2:

• A+ Promises in Node (Q.js / async)
• Problems with express and external APIs to use

week3:

• Introduction to Mongo and mongoose / mongoose-q
• Basic CRUD applications

week4:

• Headless browsers & scrapping - PhantomJS / CasperJS / Nightmare
• Testing web applications

week5:

• Passport for web apps - having users in our app
• Mongo aggregation & making some simple statistics & dashboards

week6:

• Streams & Stream API
• Sockets (TCP/IP) + JSON protocol implementation
• WebSockets

week7:

• Introduction to Node Cluster API - scaling things
• Introduction to Redis - simple communication between clusters

week8:

• Adding AI to our web application

Slides

The slides from the courses can be found on the GitHub page of the course