Node.js Absolute Beginners Guide - Learn Node From Scratch (Udemy.com)
Learn Node.js To Build Web Sites and Host Them Live On Heroku Webhosting
Created by: John Elder
Last updated November 2023
What you will learn
- Node .js for absolute Beginners
- Introductory Node
- Download and Install Node js
- How To Create a Simple Node Web Server
- How To Show Different Web Pages
- How to Use Git Version Control
- How to use Github .com
- How to Host Your Site On Heroku For Free
How it compares
Against the other 118 rated Udemy courses in Node.js on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 40% of them
- Reviews132#80 of 119 by number of reviews
- Length2.1 hoursshorter than 84% of them
- Last updatedNovember 2023more recently than 55% of them
Course Description
Aimed at the absolute beginner, you don't need any experience with Node.js at all in order to take this course. In fact, if you already know a little Node, this is NOT the course for you!
If you already know some Javascript, that's great; but you don't have to know Javascript to take this course, I'll walk you through everything you need to get started.
You'll learn:
- Install Node
- Install Git bash and Sublime Text Editor
- Run a Console Log Node Test
- Create Our First Basic Node.js Server
- Explaining the Node Server Code
- Exploring The URL Module Query String
- File System and Index Page
- Create Server Console Status Messages
- Show Different Web Pages
- Show an Index Page
- Remove HTML from the URL
- Create a Bootstrap Navbar
- Create an About and Resume Page
- Add a Bootstrap Jumbotron
- Generate SSH Keys
- Initialize Git and Github
- Install the Heroku Toolbelt CLI
- Create a Package JSON File
- Push Our Code To Heroku
- And More...
Join me today and let's learn Node!
-John Elder
CEO Codemy. com
Who this course is for:
- This course is aimed towards absolute beginners who want to learn the to build Websites with Node js
- Anyone wanting to learn to build web apps
Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
132 Reviews
John Elder
John Elder is a pioneer in Web Development who created one of the first Internet advertising networks back in 1997. He sold it to a publicly traded company at the height of the dot com boom and then went on to create the best-selling Submission-Spider search engine submission software that's been used by over 3 million individuals and small businesses in over 45 countries.
Today he teaches Web Development courses at Codemy the online code school he founded.
John graduated with honors with a degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis where he was an artsci scholar.
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Reviews
By 許哲愷
detail ~ nice
By REEN Education
Great Course for beginner..
its very clear and easy to understand.
By Stefan Rashkov
very good
By DINESH CHABRA
Nice Explanation
By Imhotep Isaacs
Very clear and engaging, great teaching style.
By Tag Guillory
Pretty light. A few incorrect but trivial details. Fine for a getting started quickly.
By Syed Muhammad Khizer
That was fun . Basic node app and deployment part was great and straight to the point . Excellent Course for Node Js Beginner .
By Ryan Mooney
Outstanding instruction. Explains why we are doing different things in the courses. Thank you very much.
By Tanner Davies
The instructor teaches in a clear, concise and accurate way. This course, however, is very sparse and the instructor doesn't take time to help students really understand the ins-and-outs of what they are doing.
By Bansi B S
Very good basic course on node.js. It helps you to start the journey into node world.
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