How do I get started with Node.js

up vote1268down votefavorite 2422	Are there any good resources to get started with Node.JS? Any good tutorials, blogs or books? Of course, I have visited its official website http://nodejs.org/, but I didn't think the documentation they have is a good starting point. javascript node.js share|edit edited Jan 13 '13 at 16:05 community wiki 8 revs, 5 users 48%Joneph O.
	8   If and of you are wondering on how to build a website using node.js and you're coming from a php'ish background, I've asked how to do that here stackoverflow.com/questions/11311672/… . I feel that's something a lot of people miss. –  Benjamin Gruenbaum Mar 8 '13 at 7:53 comments disabled on deleted / locked posts

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Tutorials NodeSchool.io interactive lessons Hello World Hello World Web Server Node.js guide Build a blog with Node.js, express and mongodb Node.Js Tutorials At Project 70 Node.js for Beginners Learn Node.js Completely and with Confidence Videos Node tuts Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl Node.js: Asynchronous Purity Leads to Faster Development Parallel Programming with Node.js Server-side JavaScript with Node, Connect & Express Node.js First Look Node.js with MongoDB Ryan Dahl's Google Tech Talk Screencasts Learn All The Nodes NodeTuts NodeCasts Books The Node Beginner Book Mastering Node.js Up and Running with Node.js Node.js in Action Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere Node.js & Co. (in German) Sam's Teach Yourself Node.js in 24 Hours Most detailed list of free JavaScript Books Mixu's Node Book Node.js the Right Way: Practical, Server-Side JavaScript That Scale Beginning Web Development with Node.js Courses Real Time Web with Node.js Blogs The Node.js blog How To Node DailyJS Nodejitsu blog Ryan Wilcox's Whitepaper devthought Podcasts NodeUp JavaScript resources Crockford's videos (must see!) Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners JavaScript garden JavaScript Patterns book JavaScript: The Good Parts book Node Modules Search for registered node.js modules Wiki List on Github/Joyent/Node (start here last!) A completely biased and incomplete selection of useful Node modules Other JSApp.US - like jsfiddle, but for node.js Node with VJET JS (for Eclipse IDE) Production sites with published source: Node Knockout Hackathon (source) Useful Node.js Tools, Tutorials and Resources Runnable.com - like jsfiddle, but for server side as well NodeBootstrap - Example Node project skeleton with best-practices share|edit edited Feb 27 at 19:42 community wiki 36 revs, 25 users 30%Kev

9   Are the books ordered by your value in them or randomly? Looking to purchase a good reference manual on nodeJS's basics. –  David May 17 '11 at 15:11 3   @David: More or less randomly. First two are freely available and the last one is in preview mode. I would recommend to start with The Node Beginner. –  yojimbo87 May 17 '11 at 15:18 1   The second book you list, Mastering Node.js, although its current content is indeed helpful, is just half finished. –  Petr Vostrel Mar 9 '12 at 11:00 20   My book (Node up and running) is available for free here: ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449398583 forever. It's also now an ebook and print. –  sh1mmer May 20 '12 at 19:36 4   Though I'm sure it took a lot of effort to compile this list, it would actually have been a lot more helpful to get no more than 3 of the best places (in your opinion) –  Etai Raz Nov 8 '12 at 6:58 show 9 more comments

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First, learn the core concepts of Node.js: You'll want to understand the asynchronous coding style that Node encourages. Async != concurrent. Understand Node's event loop! Node uses CommonJS-style require() for code loading; it's probably a bit different from what you're used to. Familiarize yourself with Node's standard library. Then, you're going to want to see what the community has to offer: The gold standard for Node package management is NPM. It is a command line tool for managing your project's dependencies. Make sure you understand how Node and NPM interact with your project via the node_modules folder and package.json. NPM is also a registry of pretty much every Node package out there Finally, you're going to want to know what some of the more popular packages are for various tasks: Useful Tools for Every Project: Underscore contains just about every core utility method you want. CoffeeScript makes JavaScript considerably more bearable, while also keeping you out of trouble! Caveat: A large portion of the community frowns upon it. If you are writing a library, you should consider regular JavaScript, to benefit from wider collaboration. Unit Testing: Mocha is a popular test framework. Vows is a fantastic take on asynchronous testing, albeit somewhat stale. Expresso is a more traditional unit testing framework. node-unit is another relatively traditional unit testing framework. Web Frameworks: Express is by far the most popular framework. Meteor bundles together jQuery, Handlebars, Node.js, websockets, mongoDB, and DDP and promotes convention over configuration without being a Rails clone. Tower is an abstraction of top of Express that aims to be a Rails clone. Geddy is another take on web frameworks. RailwayJS is a Ruby-on-Rails inspired MVC web framework. SailsJS is a realtime MVC web framework. Sleek.js is a simple web framework, bulit upon express.js. Web Framework Tools: Jade is the HAML/Slim of the Node world EJS is a more traditional templating language. Don't forget about Underscore's template method! Networking: Connect is the Rack or WSGI of the Node world. Request is a very popular HTTP request library. socket.io is handy for building WebSocket servers. Command Line Interaction: Optimist makes argument parsing a joy. Commander is another popular argument parser. Colors makes your CLI output pretty. share|edit edited Jan 31 at 4:56 community wiki 8 revs, 6 users 95%Nevir

71   this should be the best answer –  Kamal Reddy Apr 18 '12 at 17:45 1   under frameworks you should add railwayjs.com –  sagivo Jun 22 '12 at 14:55 7   AngularJS should be part of Web Framework Tools –  Farm May 9 '13 at 4:08 2   @Farm question was about node.js. Angular is a browser framework and is irrelevant here. –  Ulitiy Nov 28 '13 at 6:32 Promise: To write maintainable and readable async code I would recommend github.com/kriskowal/q – Farm Dec 25 '13 at 6:36  show 1 more comment