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Author: Mike Cantelon
ISBN : 1617290572
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About the Author
Mike Cantelon is a web programmer with 10 years of experience in bespoke and product-oriented web application development
Marc Harter is a passionate JavaScript developer with deep experience in event-style programming. He works daily on large scale projects including high availability real-time applications, streaming interfaces, and other data intensive systems.
T.J. Holowaychuk is a prolific open-source engineer who has backed Node since its infancy. He has also authored many robust Node.js modules, including the popular Express web framework, Cluster, Stylus, and Jade, among many others.
Nathan Rajlich is an active Node developer who has been working with Node since its early days. He has authored an impressive collection of Node modules including NodObjC and maintains a port of Node that runs on Apple's iOS.
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- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Manning Publications; Pap/Psc edition (November 25, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1617290572
- ISBN-13: 978-1617290572
- Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 9.2 inches
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I bought this book as part of my attempt to choose the best framework for replacing my aging and bloated JSF applications front end with.
My Javascript experience is reasonably limited so I found the first few chapters at times hard going to follow and understand as Nodes functional nature is a vastly different approach from the standard java applications I'm used to. However running the examples which were all relevant and easy to get working made it simple for me to eventually get my head round and I soon began to see the real power and flexibility that the Node framework and its functional non blocking structure has to offer.
I found the first section fascinating as I learnt the basics of Node but remember thinking at the time that it wasn't a viable candidate for my initial goal of finding a new UI framework for my existing application as it would involve an almost complete rewrite, and even after reading section 2 covering the Connect and Express modules which do make web applications simpler to implement that opinion still stands. That said though if I was to start writing a new application tomorrow I would definitely consider writing it in Node.
I thought the book itself as a guide to get a Node newbie like me up and running quickly whilst covering all the basics was excellent. It flowed well and kept me hooked until the end, I have tried all of the examples which whilst reasonably simple were all relevant and useful. In particular the shoutbox application created in chapter 9 I thought would give any application developer enough of a starting point to get up and running very quickly. This book has not only left me feeling confident that I could write Node applications straight away it makes me excited at the prospect of doing so.
I tried to use nodejs to create a REST API at the beginning of the year. Since I was new to nodejs, I searched about node and pieced different information together, what middleware to use and the pros and cons of using this one rather than that one. What combination of middle ware to use et al to even start coding. However, there was still in the back of the mind, there is some uneasiness Yet, I did not have the luxury of time (like most of the projects we do), I could not spend all my time testing and checking on all related modules, it would be fun to do though.
I find this book very informative. It fills that gap. It has a good overview of many useful modules. It has a good overview of nodejs. The division of the book is also quite good starting from the fundamental of node, which gives good explanation of what node is good for and what it’s not suited for. Next, It has useful discussion of the nodes middleware and the express framework, testing, templating and I personally like the discussion of things what node can do beyond the web.
The section also made it convenient for different level of nodejs readers, people can easily jump over the earlier sections and go to the section they need without a feeling of knowledge gap if they already know the stuff discussed earlier.
I like the in place code explanation of the book, that makes it pleasant to read through the code, in addition, it also made it a smooth reading experience, reader does not have to jump from one section to another.
I am a bit annoyed by the small explanation of other technologies when it tried to introduce a module. For example, when it was trying to introduce a mysql module, it would spend sometime to skim about what mysql is.
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