Advanced Node.js

By Samer Buna
This course will teach you the core Node.js concepts and API modules from simple utility modules all the way to streams and clusters.
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Advanced
Updated
Feb 16, 2017
Duration
3h 45m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 2m
Node != JavaScript
Is This Course for You? 6m Course Overview 6m Node's Architecture: V8 and libuv 6m Node's CLI and REPL 6m Global Object, Process, and Buffer 10m How require() Actually Works 9m JSON and C++ Addons 3m Wrapping and Caching Modules 6m Know Your NPM 9m Summary 2m
Concurrency Model and Event Loop
Introduction 1m What Is I/O Anyway 2m The Event Loop 2m The Call Stack 3m Handling Slow Operations 2m How Callbacks Actually Work 5m setImmediate and process.nextTick 4m Summary 1m
Node's Event-driven Architecture
Callbacks, Promises, and Async/Await 5m Event Emitter 4m Arguments, Errors, and Order of Listeners 2m Practical Example: Task List Manager 9m Summary 1m
Node for Networking
TCP Networking with the Net Module 3m Working with Multiple Sockets 5m Improving the Chat Server 5m The DNS Module 2m UDP Datagram Sockets 4m UDP Summary 1m
Node for Web
The Basic Streaming HTTP Server 4m Working with HTTPS 2m Requesting HTTP/HTTPS Data 5m Working with Routes 4m Parsing URLs and Query Strings 3m Summary 1m
Node's Common Built-in Libraries
Working with the Operating System 1m Working with the File System 8m Console and Utilities 4m Debugging Node.js Applications 5m Summary 1m
Working with Streams
Stream All the Things! 5m Streams 101 4m Implementing Readable and Writable Streams 5m Duplex Streams and Transform Streams 5m Summary 2m
Clusters and Child Processes
Scaling Node.js Applications 3m Child Processes Events and Standard IO 6m The Shell Snytax, exec(), and execFile() 4m The fork() Function 3m The Cluster Module 2m Load-balancing an HTTP Server 4m Broadcasting Messages to All Workers 3m Availability and Zero-downtime Restarts 8m Shared State and Sticky Load Balancing 3m Summary 2m
Course Wrap Up
Course Wrap Up 3m
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Duration
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Description

Hello, and welcome to Advanced Node.js, part of the Node.js Learning Path here at Pluralsight. My name is Samer Buna, and I’m looking forward to helping you understand how the Node runtime work and learn about all the powerful built-in features that you can use in every Node process.

Along the way, you’re going to be learning about things like modules management, V8, concurrency and event loop, streams, child processes, and clusters. You’ll also be using npm and Node's event-driven modules for networking and HTTP web servers. You’ll want to make sure you’re already up to speed on modern JavaScript and the basics of Node.js.

So if you’re ready to get started, Advanced Node.js is waiting for you. Thanks again for visiting me here at Pluralsight!

Course FAQ
Course FAQ
What is Node.js?

Node.js is a non-blocking, event-driven JavaScript platform for building scalable network apps.

Who is this course for?

This course is for you if you are comfortable with JavaScript and you know the basics of Node, like how to create a simple web server, require modules, use callbacks and events.

What will I learn in this course?

This course will NOT teach you JavaScript. This course is completely about the Node.js runtime itself and absolutely not about the popular NPM packages that are usually presented. You will learn the core Node.js concepts and API modules from simple utility modules all the way to streams and clusters.

What prerequisites do I need?

This course is definitely not for the beginner, but don't be intimidated by the Advanced label either. If you know the basics of Node, you can survive this course.

About the author
Samer Buna
About the author

Samer Buna is a polyglot coder with years of practical experience in designing, implementing, and testing software, including web and mobile applications development, API design, functional programming, optimization, system administration, databases, and scalability. Samer worked in several industries including real estate, government, education, and publications

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