Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

Solve a vast array of practical real-world tasks using JavaScript and Node.js

Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

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Harry Cummings
June 2016

Solve a vast array of practical real-world tasks using JavaScript and Node.js

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Book Details

ISBN 139781785280092

Paperback95 pages

Book Description

Node.js is an open source, cross-platform runtime environment that allows you to use JavaScript to develop server-side web applications.

This short guide will help you develop applications using JavaScript and Node.js, leverage your existing programming skills from .NET or Java, and make the most of these other platforms through understanding the Node.js programming model. You will learn how to build web applications and APIs in Node, discover packages in the Node.js ecosystem, test and deploy your Node.js code, and more. Finally, you will discover how to integrate Node.js and .NET code.

What You Will Learn

Understand which problems Node.js best solves
Write idiomatic JavaScript and Node.js code
Build web applications and command-line tools
Minimise complexity and efficiently solve difficult problems
Test and deploy Node.js applications
Work with persistent data
Implement real-time client-server applications
Integrate .NET and Node.js code

Authors

Harry Cummings

Harry Cummings has been working in software development for 8 years, and for the last few years he has performed the role of technical lead across a variety of projects for very different clients. He has, in the past, also worked as a developer, project manager, and consultant. This gives him an excellent all-round view of the role of tech lead and its relationship with other roles, as well as insight into every stage of project delivery from initial analysis to long-term maintenance.

Harry has extensive experience in C#/.NET, Java and Scala, and JavaScript/Node.js. He continues to work directly with these technologies on a regular basis in the teams that he leads. His broader interests and expertise lie in sharing and nurturing software development best practices through training and mentoring. He has appeared at conferences such as NDC London and SDD Conf, speaking on diverse topics ranging from introductory Node.js through to automated test strategies and long-term project maintainability.