This skills-focused course is approximately 50% hands-on. Our engaging instructors and mentors are highly experienced practitioners who bring years of current "on-the-job" experience into every classroom.

Working in a hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will learn to:

• Learn server-side JavaScript coding through Node.js
• Explore the latest JavaScript features, and ECMAScript modules
• Walk through different stages of developing robust applications using Node.js
• Install and use Node.js for development
• Use the Express application framework
• Work with REST service development using the Restify framework
• Use data storage engines such as MySQL, SQLITE3, and MongoDB

Incoming attendees are required to have current, hands-on experience in developing basic web applications. Student should have some experience with HTML and CSS and be well versed in JavaScript. Experience with coding for the server side would be helpful. Some general database knowledge would also be helpful.

Take Before: Attendees should have experience with the topics in the following courses, or should have recently attended these as a pre-requisite:

• Introduction to HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
• Introduction to JavaScript

Take After: Our core training courses provide students with a solid foundation for continued learning based on role, goals, or their areas of specialty. Our web developer learning paths offer a wide variety of continued learning paths such as:

• TT8325-NJS Securing Node.js Web Applications
• React, Angular, and / or full stack training to complete the front end of a project

Please contact us for recommended next steps tailored to your longer-term education, project, role or development objectives.

1. Overview of Node.js

• The capabilities of Node.js
• Why should you use Node.js?
• The Node.js event-driven architecture
• Embracing advances in the JavaScript language
• Developing microservices or maxiservices with Node.js

2. Setting Up Node.js

• System requirements
• Installing Node.js using package managers
• Installing from the source on POSIX-like systems
• Installing multiple Node.js instances with nvm
• Requirements for installing native code modules
• Choosing Node.js versions to use and the version policy
• Choosing editors and debuggers for Node.js
• Running and testing commands
• Advancing Node.js with ECMAScript 2015, 2016, 2017, and beyond
• Using Babel to use experimental JavaScript features

3. Exploring Node.js Modules

• Defining a Node.js module
• Finding and loading modules using require and import
• Using npm - the Node.js package management system
• The Yarn package management system

4. HTTP Servers and Clients

• Sending and receiving events with EventEmitter
• Understanding HTTP server applications
• HTTP Sniffer - listening to the HTTP conversation
• Web application frameworks
• Getting started with Express
• Creating an Express application to compute Fibonacci numbers
• Making HTTPClient requests
• Calling a REST backend service from an Express application

5. Your First Express Application

• Exploring Promises and async functions in Express router functions
• Architecting an Express application in the MVC paradigm
• Creating the Notes application
• Theming your Express application
• Scaling up - running multiple Notes instances

6. Implementing the Mobile-First Paradigm

• Understanding the problem – the Notes app isn't mobile friendly
• Learning the mobile-first paradigm theory
• Using Twitter Bootstrap on the Notes application
• Flexbox and CSS Grids
• Mobile-first design for the Notes application
• Using third-party custom Bootstrap themes

7. Data Storage and Retrieval

• Remembering that data storage requires asynchronous code
• Logging and capturing uncaught errors
• Storing notes in a filesystem
• Storing notes with the LevelDB datastore
• Storing notes in SQL with SQLite3
• Storing notes the ORM way with Sequelize
• Storing notes in MongoDB