Description
Description
Why use several languages for a web application when you only need one? Node.js is a server-side platform and runtime that readers can use to build full stack web applications entirely in JavaScript!
Get Programming with Node.js teaches readers to write server-side code in JavaScript using Node.js. In 34 fast-paced, fun, and practical lessons, readers discover how to extend their existing JavaScript skills to write back-end code for their web applications.
Key features
· Fast-paced
· Practical lessons
· Hands-on guide
Audience
Written for developers who know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No prior experience with Node.js is required.
About the technology
Node supports scalable, high-performance applications with easy asynchronous communication, an event-driven mindset, and a vast ecosystem of tools and modules. Node can handle the real-time response rates that games, chat sites, and statistical services need, and you get to program everything in JavaScript.
Author biography
Jonathan Wexler has an extensive background in computer theory and web development. Having curated a Node.js curriculum as the academic director and lead developer for The New York Code and Design Academy, Jonathan has instructed multiple intensive programs in full stack development and currently works as a senior developer for Bloomberg LP.
