NodeJS training course

Basic concepts

• Install Node
• Console
• Execute  a program
• Modules
• Exports
• Require
• Callbacks
• Promises

JavaScript topics (Optional)

• Function level scope
• Functions as Objects
• Closure
• Object orientation
• Prototypical Inheritance

File System

• Interact with the filesystem, and serve a web page from a file.

Node Package Manager

• Node modules, how they work, and how to make one.
• Publishing a module
• Dependency management and Version Control

Node as a server

• Create a simple Node server and ship out a website.
• Responding to requests
• Accessing the filesystem
• Shipping a template

Automation

• Automating your workflow with Gulp
• Gulp vs Grunt
• Yeoman - code generator built for Node. Create a better express app.
• Bower

Express

• Middleware
• MVC
• Jade - a popular templating tool
• SASS - Generate CSS the modern way with SASS. We also take a glance at livereload and dip our toes into autoprefixer.

Testing

• Jasmine - test a Node project.

Rest

• Access a RESTful API
• Connecting to a Database
• Publishing an API with Mongo

SOA (Service Oriented Archictecture)

• Mongo - JSON based document storage engine
• Building a front end
• Optional Angular/React

ES6

• Lambda
• Block scope
• Alternative syntax

SocketIO

• Websockets - The jewel in the crown of the Node stack.

Scaling Node

• Some pointers to scaling Node
• Non-blocking code
• Promises
• Combine the best of asynchronous and synchronous code with Promises.
• Horizontal Scaling

Advanced topics overview (optional)

• Learn Node Advanced, events and performance 
• Use AWS - Lamdas
• Test: A tour through libraries and techniques
• Learn Advanced profiling and Performance
• Use tools: Tooling
• ES6 and beyond