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How To Code in Node.js

How To Code in Node.js

Introduction

Node.js is a popular open-source runtime environment that can execute JavaScript outside of the browser. The Node runtime is commonly used for back-end web development, leveraging its asynchronous capabilities to create networking applications and web servers. Node also is a popular choice for building command line tools.

In this series, you will go through exercises to learn the basics of how to code in Node.js, gaining powerful tools for back-end and full stack development in the process.

Tutorials in series

Tutorial

How To Write and Run Your First Program in Node.js

August 14, 2019
9 min read

Tutorial

How To Use the Node.js REPL

September 18, 2019
10 min read

Tutorial

How To Use Node.js Modules with npm and package.json

November 27, 2019
19 min read

Tutorial

How To Create a Node.js Module

December 3, 2019
11 min read

Tutorial

How To Write Asynchronous Code in Node.js

February 5, 2020
19 min read

Tutorial

How To Test a Node.js Module with Mocha and Assert

March 17, 2020
34 min read

Tutorial

How To Create a Web Server in Node.js with the HTTP Module

April 10, 2020
25 min read

Tutorial

Using Buffers in Node.js

May 1, 2020
13 min read

Tutorial

Using Event Emitters in Node.js

May 29, 2020
21 min read

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