Node.js is a massively popular software platform that lets you use javascript to easily create scalable server-side applications. It allows you to create efficient code, enabling a more sustainable way of writing software made of only one language across the full stack, along with extreme levels of reusability, pragmatism, simplicity, and collaboration. Node.js is revolutionizing the web and the way people and companies create their software.
In this book, we will take you on a journey across various ideas and components, and the challenges you would commonly encounter while designing and developing software using the Node.js platform. You will also discover the Β«Node.js wayΒ» of dealing with design and coding decisions.
The book kicks off by exploring the basics of Node.js describing its asynchronous single-threaded architecture and the main design patterns. It then shows you how to master the asynchronous control flow patterns, the stream library and it culminates into a detailed list of Node.js implementations of the most common design patterns as well as some specific design patterns that are exclusive to the Node.js world. Lastly, it dives into more advanced concepts like modules, Universal javascript and scalability and its meant to conclude the journey by giving the reader all the necessary concepts to be able to build an enterprise grade application using Node.js.