Review of JavaScript best practices

• Visibility of the variables
• Code structuring
• Closures
• Objects and prototypes
• Lodash

Introduction to Node.js

• Origin of the project
• The Chrome V8 interpretation engine
• The concept of event management
• The different uses
• Overview of the ecosystem of plugins
• Installation
• A very first example

Node.js architecture

• Asynchronism
• Programming by callbacks
• The event loop

Modules and dependency management

• The modular approach
• NPM and manipulation of the modules
• The package.json file in detail
• Modularization of its code
• Core modules: console, process, os, fs, path and util
• Publish a module on NPM

Node and the Web: HTTP, Connect & Express

• Perimeter of the HTTP module
• Connect and its middlewares
• Web server with Express
• Generate an Express generator server
• Router queries
• Managing a request and creating a response
• Use a template engine
• Opening at Passport and Hapi

Asynchronous details

• Callback Hell & Pyramid of Doom
• The async module
• The promises
• Examples of concatenation and parallelization
• Error management

Real-time communication

• Integration of HTML5 WebSockets
• Socket.io
• Transport Management
• Client side and server side integration

The management of the streams

• Description of Streams2
• Buffers
• Type of flow
• Pipelining
• Object mode
• The tools: through2, trumpet, JSONStream ...
• Gulp

Link with persistence of data

• Approach via the driver or an ORM
• Integration with a relational database
• SQL abstraction modules
• The Sequelize module
• Integration with a NoSQL database
• The Mongoose module

Tooling and Software Factory

• Editing tools
• Use of logs
• Debugging tools
• Unit tests with Mocha
• Chai and Otherwise Modules
• Nodemon
• The orchestration of tasks (build) with Grunt
• Integration in Jenkins integration server

Node.js in Cluster mode

• Using the cluster module
• Master and workers
• Messaging
• Error management

Beyond Node.js

• MEAN Stack
• Deploying Node in the Cloud
• Example with AWS, Heroku
• Monitoring with pm2 and NewRelic