The Node Craftsman Book

Special notice

Preface

1. About
2. Status
3. Notes on code formatting
4. Intended audience
5. Part 1: Node.js basics in detail

Introduction to Part 1

Working with NPM and Packages

Test-Driven Node.js Development

Object-oriented JavaScript

1. Blueprints versus finger-pointing
2. A classless society
3. Creating objects
4. Object-orientation, prototyping, and inheritance
5. A classless society, revisited
6. Summary

Synchronous and Asynchronous operations explained

1. Visualizing the Node.js execution model
2. Blocking and non-blocking operations

Using and creating Event Emitters

1. Introduction
2. Creating your own Event Emitter object
3. Summary

Optimizing code performance and control flow management using the async library

1. Executing expensive asynchronous background tasks in parallel
2. Optimizing code structure with async

Efficient real-time web applications with the WebSocket protocol

1. Where WebSocket connections beat HTTP connections
2. How WebSocket connections work
3. How to use WebSocket connections in your web application
4. Extending the application

Node.js and MySQL

1. Using the “mysql” library
2. A first database application
3. Using the Streaming API
4. Making SQL queries secure against attacks
5. Summary

Node.js and MongoDB

1. Some MongoDB basics
2. Applying CRUD operations with the low-level mongodb driver
3. Retrieving specific documents using filters
4. More complex update operations
5. Working with indexes
6. Querying collections efficiently
7. Summary
8. Part 2: Building a complete web application with Node.js and AngularJS

Introduction

1. The requirements from a user’s perspective
2. High level architecture overview
3. Setting up the development environment

Milestone 1: A first passing test against the server

Milestone 2: The API responds with actual database content

1. Abstracting database access
2. Ensuring a clean slate for test runs
3. Completing the first spec

Milestone 3: Setting the stage for a continuous delivery workflow

1. Introducing automatic database migrations

Milestone 4: Giving users a frontend

1. Setting up frontend dependencies through bower
2. Serving the frontend through the backend server
3. Adding the frontend code
4. Adding AngularJS view templates

Milestone 5: More work on the backend

1. Adding a route for retrieving categories
2. Making the backend recognize different environments

Milestone 6: Completing the backend and finalizing the application

1. Creating the route for adding new keywords
2. Creating the route for updating keywords
3. Creating the route for deleting keywords

Summary

Epilogue

One last thing…