No Nonsense Node.js: Setup Development Environment (Udemy.com)
Become a Professional Node.js Developer
Created by: Ghafran Abbas
Last updated July 2016
What you will learn
- Setup development playground for node.js
How it compares
Against the other 118 rated Udemy courses in Node.js on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 61% of them
- Reviews24#109 of 119 by number of reviews
- Length1.5 hoursshorter than 88% of them
- Last updatedJuly 2016earlier than 92% of them
Quality Score
Overall Score : 90 / 100
Course Description
Setting up a development environment is a very basic need in order to do any professional development, so we have spent a lot of time and effort to ensure that the playground for development is supportive and enables rock-solid coding.
This course is for all levels of developers that want to learn node.js outside of simple tutorials that do not teach how to run projects in the real world. They just want to just dive in and build something that is production grade. All the materials are easy-to-follow videos and will take no longer than three hours to get up and running. Who this course is for:
- Professional developers making the switch to node.js
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
24 Reviews
Ghafran Abbas
Ghafran Abbas has been developing node.js applications since 2009. He has helped many organizations build high-scale applications for mobile, web, and internal systems. He has trained hundreds of developers to become professional node.js gurus and is actively involved in the community. Ghafran has a passion for software development and usually solves problems in his dreams.
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Reviews
By Affan Kajmi
Good
By Jayne Jacobs
very clear
By Asad Saqib
Fantastic course. Instructor is very clear and easy to follow. Looking forward to additional courses by him.
By Farhan Ghazi
Very simple description and narration. Easy to follow.
By Sumia Saqib
This course is very easy to follow and has just the right amount of information to get started. Slides are very professionally done. Ive been looking for this course for a very long time. This guy knows his stuff and conveys it in an easy to understand way. Looking forward to more videos from this instructor!
By Raghuraman Kanchi
This is by far the most hands on exact fit course I have encountered.
Moving from .Net world to MEAN stack has its own 'pedagogical' challenges, this course is what the doctor ordered for anyone wishing to enter professional nodejs development.
Absolutely delighted with the no-nonsense approach, consise and engaging.
Thank you for such an excellent introduction to professional nodejs development.
By Kamran Abbas
Ghafran is clear, concise and very engaging! His knowledge and to-the-point approach make it easy to understand even the most technical concepts. As a novice developer, this is course is incredibly valuable to get from good to great!
By aaron gong
Pace is good, information, my environment is slightly different though, I use heidisql (windows) , instead of mysql workbench, and my code editor is vs code
By Scott Walker
Very valuable information, presented in an engaging way. The result is a docker-ized node development environment in a github repo. Here are some things to note:
1. The course uses docker containers. While detailed info on containers is beyond the scope of the course, it would have helped to give an block diagram of what's being built (including the virtualbox). It also would be nice to include a bit more instruction on how to diagnose the environment (e.g., using command-line mysql client).
2. There were a couple places where an instruction was missing from the video (although not missing from the repo), leading to the student needing to diagnose the problem. That's fine, if the teacher uses it as an opportunity for a teachable moment. Examples:
:: apt-get update && apt-get install pkg1 pkg2
:: apt-get install mysql
All-in-all, I recommend it to all node developers.
By Muhammad Hannan
It is quite nice and easy to understand. Especially the Docker Container setup and MySql, etc. It would be nice if there were lesson on troubleshooting different issues that we learnt in the lecture.






