Course Overview

Hands-on 3-day Node.js course covering the runtime, modules and NPM, events and streams, and building web applications and REST APIs with Express and MongoDB. Ideal for JavaScript developers moving to server-side development with Node.js.

Course Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of Javascript is recommended.

Outline

Introduction to NodeJS

• About Node.js
• Working of Node.js
• Working with CLI and Node REPL
• Node's Package Manager: NPM
• Installation of Node.js
• Learning the Dynamics of Client and Server-side JavaScript
• First Node.js Program
• NodeJS architecture
• Understanding event loop and callback
• Node app basic configuration details

Modules & Packages

• Basics of modules
• Introduction to Node.js built in modules
• Introduction to NPM
• Installing, updating and removing modules
• Creating custom modules
• Understanding npm cli
• Publishing modules to npm
• Understanding NPM's coding style
• Choosing the right NPM module for your project

Events & Streams

• Reading and writing buffers
• Understanding events and the event emitter pattern
• Understanding Node.js streams
• File system module

Build Web Applications using ExpressJS & MongoDB

• Introduction to ExpressJS
• Installation and Configuration of an Express JS Project
• Routing
• Middleware
• DB communication: MongoDB
• Building a Web Server
• Serving JSON data
• Creating endpoints
• Handling Post request
• Creating a simple app to create and display Users

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