Node: Up and Running: Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript

by Tom Hughes-Croucher, Mike Wilson

This book introduces you to Node, the new web development framework written in JavaScript. You'll learn hands-on how Node makes life easier for experienced JavaScript not only can you work on the front end and back end in the same language, you'll also have more flexibility in choosing how to divide application logic between client and server. Written by a core contributor to the framework, Up and Running shows you how Node scales up to support large numbers of simultaneous connections across multiple servers, and scales down to let you create quick one-off applications with minimal infrastructure. Built on the V8 JavaScript engine that runs Google Chrome, Node is already winning the hearts and minds of many companies, including Google and Yahoo! This book shows you why.

Genres: Programming, Technology, Coding, Nonfiction, Software, Technical

200 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 2011

Reviews

[Konstantin Root · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dont waste your time reading this "book" - its in development since end of Dec 2010, so its usage is already not in line with reality.
On top of that i found following major problems:
1) Very chaotic structure of the content
2) Unfinished content
3) From 206 pages only first 85 are original content - API section is just outdated copy of documentation from nodejs.org

Avoid this book - you could get much better value by reading "Node for Front-End Developers" and API docs from nodejs.org

[Alessandro Pellizzari · Rating 3 out of 5]

Una buona introduzione all'ambiente di Node.js.

Purtroppo per l'autore (ma per fortuna per Node), lo sviluppo del software procede a una velocità incredibile, quindi alcune informazioni in questo libro iniziano già ad essere datate.

Inoltre molti argomenti vengono solo introdotti, e non approfonditi, generando anche confusione.

[Elena-Irina · Rating 1 out of 5]

Really unorganized and outdated. It doesn't even offer you an overall picture of Node.

[Vince Llauderes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Old but gold if you really want to dig deeper in the node internals.

[Eric Wallace · Rating 2 out of 5]

I skimmed this rather quickly, focusing on the earlier parts to get the "big picture" stuff about patterns for dealing with the asynchronous callbacks and non-blocking IO kind of stuff. Later chapters that survey specific modules and such are more likely to be outdated now and were not as immediately useful to me.

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

I pretty much agree with the other reviews here. This book shows plenty of examples and is a decent introduction to the Node.js core and design concepts, but its "API reference" is woefully unorganized and incomplete.

[Douglas Hackney · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well constructed, fast-paced introduction to Node.js. If you've got even a little bit of background in JavaScript, this book will provide a step-by-step guide through the essential components and characteristics of Node.

[Mohamed Amged]

don't read the 1st edition it's so old and most of code wont work with the new releases of node.

[Matt · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good overview of Node. Needs an update.

[Jami]

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books...

[Anuradha Wickramarachchi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good to start nodejs