About Course

Node.js is a run time environment which supports writing server side JavaScript programs. It also offers a rich library of different modules in JavaScript, which reduce the difficulties of developing high scalable web application using Node.JS

Why sould we learn this course?

Node.js is open source, completely free.It uses JavaScript - a language known to millions of developers worldwide - thus giving it a much lower learning curve even for complete beginners. The main idea of Node.js: use non-blocking, event-driven I/O to remain lightweight and efficient in the face of data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices

Course Objectives

• Understand the non-blocking nature of Node.js
• Write asynchronous code with callbacks and streams
• Learn how to modular code using NPM and require()
• Understand and take advantage of the built-in apis for building scaleable few applications
• Learn how to build web applications using Express.js
• Using Jade view engine for building views
• Understand how to handle authentication and authorization
• Learn how to build real-time applications using WebSockets and socket.io