Getting Started with Node.js
summary
Introduces Node.js architecture with concrete details: Chrome’s V8 plus a libuv event loop and node-specific bindings that let apps fork worker V8 instances (subject to a 1.7 GB V8 limit) for parallelism; shows a live HTTP “hello world” server, installs the colors package with npm install, and inspects node_modules and package.json. Covers VS Code debugging, clustering/forking for CPU cores, async/await, and notes NPM’s repository growth (now larger than Maven Central); demos run successfully.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:36Asynchronous processing
- 8:31Benefits of Node.js
- 12:01Node.js Web-Enabled Hello World
- 12:53Node Architecture
- 15:37Node's Asynchronous Event Loop
- 16:28Installing Node
- 17:38Verifying Node Install
- 18:04Demo: A Quick Node App
- 21:08Picking an IDE
- 27:54Node App Basic Lifecycle
- 29:23Demo: Initializing a Node app
- 32:25Demo: Adding Project Modules from NPM
- 34:31What did we learn?
