Node Web Development

by David Herron

This book is a practical introduction to learning about Node. Each chapter introduces you to a different area of Node, using screenshots and examples to get you up and running as quickly as possible. If you are a developer who wants to use JavaScript on the server side in order to build quicker, higher performing web applications, then this book is for you. It is recommended that you should have at least a rudimentary understanding of JavaScript and web application development.

Genres: Programming, Coding, Technical

172 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 10, 2011

Reviews

[Alex Fürstenau · Rating 1 out of 5]

The content was kind of ok. In my current context, I was mostly interested in the basics and stuff about testing.
The 1 Star rating is mostly related to the kindle edition. The code in the book is absolutely unreadable. Maybe this is related to nodejs itself but since it's my first book about nodejs I cannot really tell.
During the time I was reading the book I did watch a short (2,5 hours) course on udemy which I really liked. Learning a new language by book seems at least not to be my preferred way.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is easy to read and seems very short. There's a lot of information on setting up the environment, running command line statements on Linux. I ran the example program using Visual Studio with “Node.Js” installed, so a lot of the book was redundant to me. The example is a JavaScript calculator example which is then refactored using some extra packages you can install. It is a good intro, and could be good as a reference to help configure “Node.Js”.

[Stanimir Karoserov · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice Node intro! The book is easy to read and short - which is a good thing. You need to know Java Script before you start. It is focused strictly on the title subject (Node Web Development) and anything else is kept to "need to know" basis. You will only scratch the surface of the many modules available for Node.

The author had put a lot of thought on how to introduce you the subject quickly and effectively and in my opinion he did it well.

The book is a bit outdated. Node development is moving too fast for any book to keep up.

[yacoob · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty meh. Way too little nodejs specific information, plenty of general web service advice. Unnecessary colloquial tone in few places, plus asyncIO Kool-Aid instead of details. Perhaps it'd be useful as an intro to complete newcomer to webapps. I just wanted to read something structured about node.us - and that book missed my expectations.

Oh, and security chapter was quite silly and as such - completely expendable.

[Faraz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great introduction to node.js. It's a very good starting point, it doesn't go into details but explains the basics to start writing servers using javascript.

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not sure it was worth buying since the internet has such good documentation. But it is a good intro to node.

[Alexey Dubkov · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not bad book for begginer. But slightly out of date, because node.js evolve very fast, so book just not keep up with it. And it's not comprehensive guide.

[Peter Peerdeman · Rating 3 out of 5]

very brief introduction. covers the bare basics of node and learns you some nasty shortcuts instead of decently structured code.