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Learn to make more efficient apps, with just one language!

Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere equips you with the necessary tools to understand Node.js and its uses in developing efficient web apps. With more traditional web servers becoming obsolete, having knowledge on servers that achieve high scalability and optimal resource consumption using Node.js is the key to your app development success. Teaching you the essentials to making event-driven server-side apps, this book demonstrates how you can use less space and take less time for communication between web client and server.

  • Contains numerous hands-on examples
  • Explains implementation of real-time apps including Socket.IO and HTML5, and WebSockets
  • Addresses practical Node.js advantages from specific design choices
  • Demonstrates why knowledge and use of JavaScript is beneficial
  • Includes an interactive online component with sample chapters
  • Explains components of stand out apps including brevity and benchmarks

Looking to enhance your abilities even further? Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere makes developing server-side apps accessible with its focus on JavaScript, open source, and easy-to-use language.

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From the World’s Number One Resource for Web Designers and Developers – The Ultimate Guide to the Technology That’s Taking the Web Development World by Storm

Node.js is a powerful web development framework written in JavaScript that makes it simpler and easier than ever to develop robust, highly-scalable server-side web apps. Smashing Node.js shows you what Node.js is and how to put it to work on your next project. Packed with real-world examples that demonstrate why Node.js is quickly becoming the tool of choice among web developers everywhere, it gets you quickly up and running with the knowledge and skills you need to:

  • Make sense of Node’s Event-Loop Architecture, Non-Blocking I/O, and Event-Driven Programming
  • Master the Ins and Outs of Node’s Apis
  • Effortlessly Implement Real-Time Technologies, Such as Shocket.IO and HTML5 Websockets
  • Program Apps That Scale Up to Support Vast Numbers of Simultaneous Connections Across Multiple Servers
  • Leverage Node’s Ability to Support an Array of Database and Data Storage Tools
  • Write Code That Can Handle Tens of Thousands of Connections at a Time—On One Machine
  • Interact in Real-Time With Other Developers on a Companion Web Site Featuring Additional Chapters and More Annotated Examples—Source Code Included

Beautifully illustrated with tons of full-color illustrations and packed with useable source code, Smashing Node.js is your total guide to the revolutionary web development tool.

About the Author

Guillermo Rauch is CTO and co-founder of San Francisco-based education startup LearnBoost. He is the inventor of several renowned Node.js projects, and he has been a speaker at JSConf as well as Nod.js workshops.

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3.9 out of 5 stars
57 global ratings

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Customers find the book easy to read and appreciate its intuitive approach. However, the content receives mixed feedback, with some finding it a great introduction to Node while others consider it disappointing. Moreover, the editing quality is poor with numerous spelling and grammar mistakes, and customers report that many simple examples don't work. The code quality and writing style also receive mixed reviews.
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9 customers mention readability, 7 positive, 2 negative
Customers find the book easy to read and intuitive, with one customer mentioning it helps quickly learn and understand Node.js.
This is actually a well written book that is easy to follow, it just seems to be getting a little old....Read more
...Easy to read style, good examples, etc.Read more
I found that book quite easy to read and really helped me out to develop my music web based application ....Read more
...the example code or been writing it as you read it, it is very hard to follow sometimes. The MongoDB module wasn't covered all that thorough either....Read more
35 customers mention content, 24 positive, 11 negative
Customers have mixed opinions about the content of the book, with some finding it a great introduction to Node while others describe it as disappointing with incomplete examples.
Seems to be a great Introduction to node.js so far....Read more
Great Book for getting passed the basicsRead more
...high reviews but was ultimately very disappointed due to it's incomplete examples....Read more
Great Intro to Node.JSRead more
10 customers mention functionality, 4 positive, 6 negative
Customers have mixed experiences with the book's functionality, with several reporting that the most simple examples do not work.
...All but the most simple examples do not work. The twitter feed example is somewhat understandable because they changed their API to not support REST....Read more
...It has different ways of solving problems, not merely different syntax for solving problems.Read more
...and I am stuck on chapter 4 because the demo code used by the author does not work when I compile it and I have no way to reach out and find a...Read more
...However, I havent had any problems getting the examples to work....Read more
6 customers mention writing style, 3 positive, 3 negative
Customers have mixed opinions about the writing style of the book.
This is actually a well written book that is easy to follow, it just seems to be getting a little old....Read more
...It's almost as if they were written in a rush and then nobody double checked them later....Read more
The book is really well written. Very few errors in it....Read more
...This one, despite not being very skillfully written, stands out by being broad enough and just barely deep enough to cover the topic....Read more
5 customers mention pacing, 3 positive, 2 negative
Customers have mixed opinions about the pacing of the book, with some finding it well-paced, while others note that the first few chapters are slow for those familiar with JavaScript.
...really like the way it is organized and seems to progress through learning node at a descent pace....Read more
...The first few chapters are slow if you're familiar with JS, but it picks and left me with that - now I can make anything - feeling.Read more
...Concise and gets you working fast.Read more
A bit rushedRead more
14 customers mention editing, 3 positive, 11 negative
Customers criticize the book's editing, noting it is poorly written with numerous spelling and grammar mistakes.
...Also from other reviews I have read there are errors in the book yet no errata to resolve this.Read more
...I've been through so many poorly edited books like this (and a few really good ones like a few from Nerd Ranch) that I'm inclined to just toss this...Read more
...Then it shipped in a few days. Judging by the spelling errors and lack of cohesive layout I can see why....Read more
...Concise and gets you working fast.Read more
6 customers mention code quality, 1 positive, 5 negative
Customers criticize the code quality in the book, with multiple reviews mentioning issues with code samples and examples. One customer notes that the code samples are provided in an extremely haphazard way, while another points out that the packages.json file examples no longer run cleanly.
...does that i don't like is it has you write a block of code and than later replace that code with some different code....Read more
...and its own specifications as the minimalist packages.json file examples provided no longer run cleanly....Read more
...I would like to give it 4 stars because copying the code samples from Kindle is next to useless....Read more
...There is a lot of fragment code in this book, which can make things hard to test yourself....Read more
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