Learning Node After a Career on Microsoft
summary
After 15 years on the Microsoft stack a platform switch to Node.js and React yields concrete results not abstraction: an isomorphic React/Node app that does server and client rendering, working CRUD admin screens over Øredev session data, and a 20-step tutorial born from a 20‑page README. The learning path uses Express, npm, webpack, Babel, gulp, shows incremental team adoption, cites 12 platform shifts in a career and a prior project that replaced a mainframe for 680 school districts.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 8:15Microsoft is all I know
- 18:47Node Web Apps
- 23:46Verifying My Understanding
- 24:32Create a Hello World Web Server
- 24:42Render React JSX on the Server
- 25:42Use Gulp as a Build System
- 26:23Extract a React Component
- 26:54Render React on the Client
- 27:55Use JSX on the Client
- 28:56Integrate Server and Client Rendering
- 39:05Platform Loyalty is an Illusion
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