Node.js Essential Training (2019)

Learn the essentials of Node.js. Discover what you need to know to start creating your own JavaScript applications with Node.js.

Introduction

• Learn the Node.js fundamentals
• What you should know

1. What Is Node.js?

• Node.js history
• How Node.js works

2. Set Up Your Environnment

• Using VS Code
• Install Node.js

3. Node Globals

• The global object
• The require function
• Argument variables with process.argv
• Standard output
• Standard input
• Creating a delay with setTimeout
• Incorporate setInterval
• Report progress with setInterval

4. Node Modules

• Core modules
• Collect information with readline
• Use readline functions
• Export custom modules
• Create a module
• Custom events with the EventEmitter
• Improve a module with EventEmitter

5. File System Basics

• List directory files
• Read files
• Write and append files
• Directory creation
• Append files
• Rename and remove files
• Rename and remove directories

6. Files and Streams

• Readable file streams
• Writable file streams
• Create child process with exec
• Create child process with spawn

Conclusion

• Next steps