Introduction

• Node.js Background

• Getting Node.js

• Demo: Installing Node on Linux/Windows with NVM

• Node’s Event Loop

• Node Conventions for Writing Asynchronous Code

• Modules, require() and NPM

• Introduction, Accessing Built-in Modules

• Finding 3rd Party Modules via NPM

Express

• Introduction
• Setting up Express
• Running Express
• Debugging Options
• Static Files – Public Directory
• Introduction, Making Web Requests in Node
• Building a Web Server in Node
• Demo: Building a Web Server in Node

Routing

• Introduction
• Navigation
• Routing
• Rendering
• Separate Files
• Router Functions

Authentication

• Introduction to Authentication
• Auth Routes
• Passport
• Local Strategy

Events and Streams

• Introduction
• Events and the EventEmitter class
• Readable and Writable Streams, the Pipe function
• Demo: Readable and Writable Streams
• Demo: Piping Between Streams

Accessing the Local System

• The Process Object
• Demo: The Process object
• Interacting with the File System
• Demo: Interacting with the File System
• What is a Buffer?
• The OS Module

Socket.IO

• Realtime Interaction with Socket.IO
• Demo: Socket.IO

Testing and Debugging

• Introduction, The Assert Module
• Demo: The Assert Module
• Testing with Mocha and Should.js
• Demo: Mocha and Should.js

Scaling Your Node Application

• Introduction, The Child Process Module
• Demo: The “exec” function
• Demo: The “spawn” function
• Demo: The “fork” function
• Scaling with Node’s Cluster Module
• Demo: Building a Clustered Web Server