Introducing Node.js

• How Node Applications Work
• Event-driven and non-blocking execution environment
• Understanding and using asynchronous control flows
• Dependency Management
• Folder Dependencies
• Node Package Manager (NPM)
• Task runners (Grunt)

Modules

• Importing and exporting CommonJS Modules
• Installing external modules with the Node Package Manager
• Creating a basic http server

Creating web applications with node.js

• Using Express.js
• View Engines – Jade
• View Engines – EJS
• View Engines – Vash
• Building the Controllers
• Building a Service
• Static Resources
• Client-side Resources

Creating Services with Node.js

• Rest services
• Building a Service with Express
• Start in Real-time communication with socket.io

Accessing Data with Node.js

• Data Access in Node.js
• Relational Data in Node.js with PostgSql
• No-SQL Data Stores for Node.js
• Installing MongoDB
• Accessing the MongoDB Server
• CRUD Data to MongoDB
• Dictionary databases with Redis

Robust Messaging Services with ØMQ (ZeroMQ)

• Message-Publishing and -Subscribing
• Responding to Requests
• Routing and Dealing Messages
• Clustering Node.js Processes
• Pushing and Pulling Messages

Testing in Node.js

• TDD oriented development
• Jasmine
• Mocha
• Node Inspector
• Winston