Node.js Essential Training: Web Servers, Tests, and Deployment

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Created by: Alex Banks

Produced in 2019

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Deepen your essential knowledge of Node.js. Node.js is a powerful tool for controlling servers and building web applications. This training course provides a strong foundation in those intermediate-level topics: working with web servers and testing and deploying applications. Instructor Alex Banks introduces the HTTP module for making HTTP requests and shows how to install and manage Node.js modules with the node package manager (npm). He also dives into WebSockets for real-time two-way communication between web servers and clients- "and demos a chat application that puts it to good use. In the final chapter, he shows how to test and debug Node.js code and use available tooling to streamline common tasks, such as compiling and minification.

Advanced Level

Time: 2h 39m

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Alex Banks

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Alex Banks develops large-scale web applications and teaches web development at Yahoo, eBay, and Stanford.

Alex Banks started writing code at the age of eight years old on his first computer, a Tandy TRS-80. In 1995, Alex developed his first website and has been hooked ever since. He went on to study English and computer science at Georgetown University before working as a government consultant and classroom instructor in the Washington, DC, area.

Alex has spent his entire career developing web applications and teaching web development technologies. He has developed several large-scale elearning and CMS applications, including the CMS for the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon that hosted 10 high-traffic websites. In 2010, Alex moved to Seattle and worked with MSN to develop Big on the Web.

Alex now lives in Tahoe City, California, and he provides classroom and online-based training regularly for Yahoo, eBay, PayPal, and Stanford University, and other companies across the country. When Alex isn't in a classroom, he spends his time developing applications, learning new technologies, and writing custom training curriculums.

When Alex isn't wired into code or in front of a classroom, you can find him somewhere in the Sierra Nevada backcountry on a chairlift, on the trail, or at the summit.