Node.js Training Course

Who should attend

Our Node.js training course is aimed at developers who want to get the most out of Node.js in order to develop, test and deploy JavaScript apps, simple web services and APIs on the popular runtime.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the basic concepts of JavaScript is required - an advanced knowledge of JavaScript will not be assumed.

If you are interested in custom / on-site Node.js training for your development team, please do get in touch. We can take into account your project requirements, existing technical skills and timeframes to suit your needs, and tailor the most relevant and focussed course for you – such as building exercises around your working practices, preferred IDE, server architecture and target audience.

Session 1: Course Overview

• Introduction to the course
• Course Outline
• Trainer and Delegate Introductions

Session 2: Introduction to Node.js

• Server-side JavaScript – the very idea!
• What is Node.js
• The Node.js environment
• What is NPM?
• Why Node.js?
• Node.js REPL
• Node.js Editors and IDEs
• HelloWorld in Node.js first program

Lab 1: Implementing Welcome message for Bookshop server

Session 3: Exploring Node.js

• Generating HTML from Node.js
• Handling Multiple URLs
• Accessing the Filesystem
• Node.js REPL
• Command Line Arguments
• Environment Variables
• dotenv Environment Variables Module

Lab 2: Handling multiple URLs for the BookShop

Session 4: Callbacks, Events and Arrow Functions

• Need for Callbacks / Primises
• Node Event Processing Loop
• Callback Functions
• Events
• Arrow Functions

Session 5: Node.js Module System

• Introduction to module system
• Importing modules – require() function
• Core modules
• Parsing URLs via the url module
• Defining Custom Modules
• Importing Custom modules
• The package.json file
• Installing Additional Modules
• Global and local installation
• Running with Nodemon

Lab 3 : Defining a custom module to provide a random Bookshop message of the day

Session 6: Promises and Reactive Programming Overview

• Introduction to Promises
• JavaScript Promises
• Async / await
• The ReactiveX Project
• The Observer Pattern
• Advantages of Reactive Programming
• Disadvantages of Reactive Programming
• RxJS Programming Framework

Session 7: Express for Node.js

• What is Express?
• Why Express?
• Obtaining Express
• Express HelloWorld
• Express HTTP methods and urls
• Sending Files
• Serving Static Files
• Template Engines
• Responding with JSON
• Express Application Generator

Lab 4: Refactoring Bookstore using Express

Session 8: RESTFul Services with Node and Express

• REST Principles
• REST Basic Concept
• REST Design Pattern
• Express.js for REST APIs
• Creating the REST API
• Accessing REST APIs
• Using Postmon to Access RESTful APIs
• Organising Your Code
• Setting a Router
• Logging all Requests

Lab 5: Implementing a book catalogue RESTful service

Session 9: Testing Node.js Servers

• Testing Frameworks for JavaScript
• Introduction to Mocha
• Working with Mocha
• Mocha Test Specifications
• How Mocha finds tests
• Running Mocha Tests
• Test Fixtures
• Nested describe functions
• Chai assertion library
• Testing Promises
• Testing a Rest API

Lab 6: Writing tests for the bookstore

Session 10: Debugging in Node.js

• Debugging in Node.js
• console.log v console.err
• Node.js console.module
• The inspector
• Inspector only console methods
• Security implications
• node-inspect Debugging Tool
• Visual Studio Code debugging
• Postmon
• Error messages

Session 11: Data Streams and Buffers

• Streaming Data
• Readable and Writable Streams
• Readable Streams
• Reading data via readable streams
• Handling readable stream events data and end
• Writable Streams
• Writing data via writable streams
• Handling on finish events
• Piping Data from one stream to another
• Buffers

Lab 7: Working with Streams

Session 12: Node.js Error Handling

• Callback errors
• Passing errors to Express
• Application specific errors
• Catching errors with promises
• Default promise error handlers
• The verror modulev
• Using the verror module
• Chaining VErrors
• Wrapping with WErrors

Lab 8: Handling errors in the catalogue service

Session 13: Connecting to MySQL

• Examples of Relational Databases
• MySQL
• Connecting to an SQL Database
• Query a Database
• Insert into the Database
• Update a row in the Database
• Delete a row in the Database
• Transaction Handling

Session 14: Connecting to MongoDB

• Examples of NoSQL Databases
• MongoDB
• Installing MongoDB driver
• Connecting to MongoDB database
• Create a Collection
• Inserting into a Collection
• Find Documents in Collections
• Update Documents
• Delete Documents

Lab 9: Connecting to a MongoDB database via MongoDB for the Bookstore RESTful API

Session 15: Mongoose

• Object Document Mapper
• Accessing Mongoose
• Mongoose Schema
• Adding a New User Document
• Finding Documents
• Updating and Deleting Documents
• Using Mongoose with REST API

Lab 10 (optional): Connecting to a MongoDB database via Mongoose for the Bookstore RESTful API