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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.

Charissacharisse answered 1/3, 2010 at 4:9 Comment(1)
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 #11312172 . I feel that's something a lot of people miss. – Tanked
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You can follow these tutorials to get started:

Tutorials

Developer Sites

Videos

Screencasts

Books

Courses

Blogs

Podcasts

JavaScript resources

Node.js Modules

Other

Emirate answered 1/3, 2010 at 4:9 Comment(30)
Are the books ordered by your value in them or randomly? Looking to purchase a good reference manual on nodeJS's basics. – Adorl
@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. – Bringingup
The second book you list, Mastering Node.js, although its current content is indeed helpful, is just half finished. – Entomb
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. – Itagaki
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) – Odell
"The node beginner" has unfortunately gone the way of the ... it's pay begging now (or I haven't discovered the "next" button). – Kenyettakenyon
I don't recommend the nettuts tutorial. Their first benchmarked example isn't what you'd use node for. And listening for the end event in the request stream is unnecessary and will not work with the new streams in node version >= 0.9 – Elk
I just published a tutorial on using Node.js to build a complete web application. Check it out at leanpub.com/webdevelopmentwithnodejs. – Manuelmanuela
Visit this website it will get you started on windows geekswithblogs.net/shaunxu/archive/2012/09/14/… – Jada
Check out Beginning Web Development with Node.js for a simple walkthrough of building a complete web application with a database, security, form validation, Bootstrap themes, etc... – Manuelmanuela
Even it's not a tutorial - I would like to recommend for the beginners to try out the web-online environment c9.io. It has beautiful IDE with debug mode with breakpoints, watches etc, you can develop/upload/download share your project and much more. It's not only NodeJS service, but I didn't try the rest so I can't recommend. NodeJS works just fine there and it's extremely comfortable! – Unconventional
@sh1mmer: Dead link. This one works (same book): chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001808/index.html – Boles
At a major company my friend works for, "Node.js the Right Way" was the official read. I'd also recommend video tutorials on Lynda. Ya, it's $30, but it covered the tooling very well. Ensure you learn npm very thoroughly. It's powerful! – Seto
For someone with no experience in JavaScript (but experience in other languages), what's the best book to learn Node.JS + Javascript? – Subtractive
I was struggling with this as well, as I couldn't translate a written article into workable code, (I was doing my best not to copy and paste), and I really wanted to learn the concept of Node before going too far in. I found a really great tutorial series on YouTube, I've added it to the Videos list, "Node.js Tutorials for Beginners". – Adorl
Here is our get started guide for Node on AWS: boxfuse.com/getstarted/nodejs – Atlantes
For anyone looking for a good understanding of how to build Node Add Ons I can recommend Scott Frees' book "C++ and Node Integration." It's not free but it is really, really helpful if you are trying to understand how C++ code and V8/Javascript interact. – Nominative
Taking online classes is another way. linkedin.com/pulse/… – Padriac
These are tons of resources but there is no way to tell which is the best out of the lot. You many want to try Hackr to find out the best Node.js courses/tutorials curated and voted by programming community: hackr.io/tutorials/learn-node-js – Snooze
I also came out with a Youtube Series on Node Basics: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-4zzaVqc2aj8ZuO9j9kLJdSZnZc3SgSK – Muck
@miparnisari the third link under tutorials, which is same as the first Book listed here - The Node Beginner Book is perfect to learn node.js without javascript knowledge. – Aerugo
Link nicholasjohnson.com/courses/nodejs/book is broken (404). – Personalize
Best Node.js Frameworks: onaircode.com/best-node-js-frameworks – Collbaith
Two more resource for getting started NodeJs: 1. onaircode.com/best-nodejs-getting-started-tutorials 2. onaircode.com/nodejs-tools-tutorials-resources – Collbaith
w3school nodejs tutorial is the best for newbie. 2nd learn express from w3school. that get you to understand routing and lets you run the server. – Infanta
The best place for beginner of node JS is w3schools.com/nodejs/nodejs_intro.asp – Snappish
Code tutorials are all over the place these days. If you really wanna learn you'll find lots of videos on youtube. – Horsehair
@Infanta Do you still think that? – Phaidra
is there a specific starter kit for node js with typescript ? – Jacquenette
First need to start with Javascript and then go for Node. – Incantatory
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First, learn the core concepts of Node.js:

Then, you're going to want to see what the community has to offer:

The gold standard for Node.js package management is NPM.

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.
  • Lo-Dash is a clone of Underscore that aims to be faster, more customizable, and has quite a few functions that underscore doesn't have. Certain versions of it can be used as drop-in replacements of underscore.
  • TypeScript makes JavaScript considerably more bearable, while also keeping you out of trouble!
  • JSHint is a code-checking tool that'll save you loads of time finding stupid errors. Find a plugin for your text editor that will automatically run it on your code.

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.
  • AVA is a new test runner with Babel built-in and runs tests concurrently.

Web Frameworks:

  • Express.js is by far the most popular framework.
  • Koa is a new web framework designed by the team behind Express.js, which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs.
  • sails.js the most popular MVC framework for Node.js, and is based on express. It is designed to emulate the familiar MVC pattern of frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the requirements of modern apps: data-driven APIs with a scalable, service-oriented architecture.
  • Meteor bundles together jQuery, Handlebars, Node.js, WebSocket, MongoDB, and DDP and promotes convention over configuration without being a Ruby on Rails clone.
  • Tower (deprecated) is an abstraction of a top of Express.js that aims to be a Ruby on Rails clone.
  • Geddy is another take on web frameworks.
  • RailwayJS is a Ruby on Rails inspired MVC web framework.
  • Sleek.js is a simple web framework, built upon Express.js.
  • Hapi is a configuration-centric framework with built-in support for input validation, caching, authentication, etc.

  • Trails is a modern web application framework. It builds on the pedigree of Rails and Grails to accelerate development by adhering to a straightforward, convention-based, API-driven design philosophy.

  • Danf is a full-stack OOP framework providing many features in order to produce a scalable, maintainable, testable and performant applications and allowing to code the same way on both the server (Node.js) and client (browser) sides.

  • Derbyjs is a reactive full-stack JavaScript framework. They are using patterns like reactive programming and isomorphic JavaScript for a long time.

  • Loopback.io is a powerful Node.js framework for creating APIs and easily connecting to backend data sources. It has an Angular.js SDK and provides SDKs for iOS and Android.

Web Framework Tools:

Networking:

  • Connect is the Rack or WSGI of the Node.js world.
  • Request is a very popular HTTP request library.
  • socket.io is handy for building WebSocket servers.

Command Line Interaction:

  • minimist just command line argument parsing.
  • Yargs is a powerful library for parsing command-line arguments.
  • Commander.js is a complete solution for building single-use command-line applications.
  • Vorpal.js is a framework for building mature, immersive command-line applications.
  • Chalk makes your CLI output pretty.

Code Generators:

  • Yeoman Scaffolding tool from the command-line.
  • Skaffolder Code generator with visual and command-line interface. It generates a customizable CRUD application starting from the database schema or an OpenAPI 3.0 YAML file.

Work with streams:

Kirkendall answered 1/3, 2010 at 4:9 Comment(9)
under frameworks you should add railwayjs.com – Orientalism
@Farm question was about node.js. Angular is a browser framework and is irrelevant here. – Annadiane
Promise: To write maintainable and readable async code I would recommend github.com/kriskowal/q – Shogunate
Backbone.js, MEAN, Require.js and lots more to come !!! voila!!! – Shetler
NodeJS is the future of javascript – Costmary
rest API in node , my thoughts : myroaddiary.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/nodway – Lucais
judging by the number of github stars, Meteor is more popular than Express. – Wisla
The best way to lean node js is from scotch.io tutorials. Start from basic CRUD operations then move on to further queries and functionalities. – Goraud
A roadmap can be useful in this case like this link: github.com/aliyr/Nodejs-Developer-Roadmap – Narcosynthesis
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Use the source, Luke.

No, but seriously I found that building Node.js from source, running the tests, and looking at the benchmarks did get me on the right track. From there, the .js files in the lib directory are a good place to look, especially the file http.js.

Update: I wrote this answer over a year ago, and since that time there has an explosion in the number of great resources available for people learning Node.js. Though I still believe diving into the source is worthwhile, I think that there are now better ways to get started. I would suggest some of the books on Node.js that are starting to come out.

Jurist answered 1/3, 2010 at 4:9 Comment(2)
+1 for the opening line :3 but thats how I leant to use Kohana. So it is a pretty good method as long as you can understand the source. – Repetitious
Express helps you get started in the source, imo. I mean, at least it gives you a jumping off point, a working example... something to fiddle around with. expressjs.com/en/guide/routing.html – Jansen

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