Basic Nodes.js Training

SkillsFuture Course - Basic Nodes.js Training

Node.js is a powerful tool for controlling servers, building web applications, and creating event-driven programs. And it takes JavaScript—a language familiar to all web developers—out of the browser. With Node.js, you can build applications that run on your laptop or even the cloud. Learn the essentials of Node.js and start creating your own JavaScript applications in this introductory training course.
The topics include: 

• What is Node.js?
• Installing Node.js
• Understanding the global object and global timing
• Importing the core modules
• Handling events
• Creating child processes
• Reading, writing, and removing files
• Working with file streams
• Making http requests
• Serving files and JSON data
• Installing npm, the node package manager
• Working with Express, the web server framework
• Using WebSockets

Module 1 Get Started

• What Is Node.js?
• Node.js history
• How Node.js works
• Installing Node.js

Module 2. Node Core

• The global object
• Argument variables with process.argv
• Standard input and standard output
• Global timing functions

Module 3. Node Modules

• Core modules
• Collecting information with Readline
• Handling events with EventEmitter
• Exporting custom modules
• Creating child process with exec
• Creating child process with spawn

Module 4 The File System

• Listing directory files
• Reading files
• Writing and appending files
• Directory creation
• Renaming and removing files
• Renaming and removing directories
• Readable file streams
• Writable file streams

Modul 5. The HTTP Module

• Making a request
• Building a web server
• Serving files
• Serving JSON data
• Collecting POST data

Module 6. Node Package Manager

• Installing npms locally
• Installing npms globally on a Mac
• Installing npms globally on a PC
• File servers with httpster

Module 7. Web Servers

• The package.json file
• Intro to Express
• Express routing and CORS
• Express post bodies and params

Module 8. WebSockets

• Creating a WebSocket server
• Broadcasting messages with WebSockets
• Creating WebSockets with Socket.IO