Learn and Understand NodeJS (Udemy.com)

Dive deep under the hood of NodeJS. Learn V8, Express, the MEAN stack, core Javascript concepts, and more.

Created by: Anthony Alicea

Produced in 2021

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What you will learn

  • Grasp how NodeJS works under the hood
  • Understand the Javascript and technical concepts behind NodeJS
  • Structure a Node application in modules
  • Understand and use the Event Emitter
  • Understand Buffers, Streams, and Pipes
  • Build a Web Server in Node and understand how it really works
  • Use npm and manage node packages
  • Build a web application and API more easily using Express
  • Connect to a SQL or Mongo database in Node
  • Understand how the MEAN stack works
  • Be the coder that explains NodeJS to everyone else because you understand it better than anyone else

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Overall Score : 90 / 100

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Course Description

NodeJS is a rapidy growing web server technology, and Node developers are among the highest paid in the industry. Knowing NodeJS well will get you a job or improve your current one by enabling you to build high quality, robust web applications.
In this course you will gain a deep understanding of Node, learn how NodeJS works under the hood, and how that knowledge helps you avoid common pitfalls and drastically improve your ability to debug problems.
In this course we'll look at how the C++ written V8 Javascript engine works and how NodeJS uses it to expand the abilities of Javascript. You'll learn how to structure your code for reuse and to be easier to understand, manage, and expand using modules and understand how modules really work.
You'll learn how asynchronous code works in Node and the Node event loop, as well as how to use the event emitter, streams, buffers, pipes, and work with files. We'll see how that leads to building a web server in Node.
We'll dive into web sites, web apps and APIs with Express and learn how Express can save us time as Node developers.
You'll also gain an understanding of npm, connecting to databases, and the MEAN stack!
During it all you'll gain a deep understanding of the Javascript concepts and other computer science concepts that power Node.
NodeJS doesn't have to be hard to learn. The biggest mistake most coding tutorials make is expecting someone to learn simply by imitating others' code. Real world situations are never exactly like the tutorial.
I believe the best way to learn is to understand how a tool works and what it does for you, look at examples, and then try it yourself. That's how this course is built, with the goal to help you both learn and understand NodeJS.
Note: In this course you'll also get downloadable source code. You will often be provided with 'starter' code, giving you the base for you to start writing your code, and 'finished' code to compare your code to.Who this course is for:
  • Those looking to build a career as a NodeJS developer
  • Those desiring to become MEAN stack developers
  • Those who don't have server technology experience but wish to gain this skill
  • Those coming from other server technologies (like PHP, ASP.NET, or Ruby on Rails) and want to learn Node
  • Those who want to only have to write both client and server code in one language: Javascript
  • Those who want to grasp Express

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Instructor Details

Anthony Alicea

Newly married in Cleveland Ohio, Tony is primarily focused these days on trying to be a good husband. While inexperienced at that, he's quite experienced in all things web.
Tony has been programming since he was 12 years old, and got into web sites and web application development at 16. After graduating with a Computer Science degree from Case Western Reserve University, Tony continued with that interest as a Microsoft certified software application developer and architect, database designer, and user interface designer.
His experience has ranged across technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, ASP .NET MVC, JavaScript, jQuery, KnockoutJS, AngularJS, NodeJS, LESS, Bootstrap, SQL, Entity Framework and more.
He believes strongly that deeply understanding any topic allows you to properly learn it and, even more importantly in a real-world environment, quickly overcome problems.
He also has a deep interest in human nature and behavior, and how that impacts human-computer interaction. This interest translated into extending his career into user experience design and usability research.
Another link in the chain is his 25 years of experience in public speaking and teaching, both in front of large groups and as a one-on-one private instructor.
Putting all these pieces together, he has spent his career listening to a client need, designing a database and software to meet that need, building it, testing it, teaching others how to use it, then improving user exper

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Reviews

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By Laurent Staub on 11/14/2020

Very clear course, Anthony is very good at explaining the concepts behind NodeJS.

By Philipp on 11/14/2020

Really good to understand the fundamentals of Nodejs!

By Arsalan Adeeb on 11/14/2020

Love from India .He teaches in a way that is slow but down the line builds foundation of the technology.I respect you and incourage you to create an indepth course on Design Patterns.

By Muthukrishnan Ulaganathan on 11/14/2020

Great course to learn, understand and practice NodeJS

By Parmeshwar Patil on 11/14/2020

Very good explanation of core concepts and V8 engin

By Courtney Westphal on 11/14/2020

I really enjoyed this course. I had dabbled in node when doing other things but it really was copying and pasting so I was always confused when things didn't immediately work. I couldn't troubleshoot anything because I didn't understand node. The instructor does a great job really getting into the details of what node is and how it works. Honestly blew my mind.

By Sven Thielen on 11/14/2020

Some parts of the course need a refresh to take into account newer versions of Node / JS, deprecated resources (mlab -> cloud mongodb atlas). The final app only makes use of the default get api.
No interaction to update / Delete from the mongodb.
So where is Part 2?

By Lorenzo Granna on 11/14/2020

Course ends abruptly: where is "Adding a front-end in Angular (Part 2)"? And despite the fact that this is an extremely outdated course, that was a good experience for me and I learned a lot of new things anyway.

By John Berman on 11/7/2020

Very in depth course. No fluff.

By Taufan Sungkit on 11/7/2020

The quality of recording is very good, and all of the courses are very detail and easy to understand

By Kent Galbraith on 11/7/2020

I liked the deep dive explanations of the concepts of NodeJS. It really helped me understand why I want to do things they way they should be done.

By Aashinya on 11/7/2020

Explained All the Concepts Very Well. This is a very good course. Tony is a great instructor. Thank you Tony for helping the Students, IT Professionals. Stay Blessed.