Node.js for JavaScript Developers Training Course

Overview

Node.js provides a platform for rapidly constructing fast, scalable network applications. This course teaches you how to leverage its event-driven, non-blocking I/O model to develop data-intensive, real-time applications that operate across distributed devices. We will examine the design decisions that distinguish Node.js, explore how this shifts the paradigm of application development, and discuss how application systems function most effectively within this framework. You will learn to write modular, robust, expressive, and clear code. The curriculum covers the appropriate use of callbacks, event emitters, and streams, demonstrating how streams facilitate the manipulation of data that exceeds application memory capacity. Students will gain confidence in effective error handling to ensure runtime reliability. Extensive lab exercises are included to reinforce the concepts and techniques presented.

Objectives

Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Articulate the platform design choices that led Node.js to adopt an event loop and analyze the implications for applications built on this foundation.
• Grasp the unique trade-offs inherent in event-driven programming.
• Develop Node.js modules and demonstrate code modularity within an application.
• Identify core flow control patterns in Node.js and determine when to utilize callbacks, event emitters, or streams.
• Create and manipulate buffers with efficiency.
• Manage error states effectively and understand the criteria for process termination due to errors.
• Construct network applications using Node.js.