Node.js JavaScript: developing reactive web applications

Module 1: JavaScript overview

• Basic JavaScript syntax.
• The history of JavaScript and server-side Node.js.
• JavaScript callbacks, closures, scope, apply, bind and call.
• Introduction to ECMAScript 6.

Module 2: getting started with Node.js

• What is a Node.js web server?
• Installing a Node web server.
• The npm package manager.
• Node.js modular architecture.
• Using Node.js in the REPL.

Module 3: Node.js fundamentals

• Functional and asynchronous programming.
• Event handling: responding rather than waiting.
• Core API modules: console, util, file, events, timer, etc.
• HTTP and HTTPS request and response management.

Module 4: Express.js fundamentals

• What is middleware?
• Creating your first Express.js application.
• Routing.
• Request handling.
• Views.

Module 5: using Express.js middleware

• Middleware types.
• Error handling.

Module 6: using Express.js routing

• Routing concepts.
• Routing features and parameter handling.
• Using regular expressions.
• Routing in application design.
• Routing and optimising static web content management.

Module 7: designing APIs

• JSON APIs.
• URL parsing: parameters, query strings, etc.
• Asynchronous request processing.
• CRUD APIs.
• Error handling.

Module 8: views and templates with Jade and EJS

• Express views.
• Templating with EJS.
• Jade syntax.
• Templating with Jade.

Module 9: data persistence

• NoSQL concepts with MongoDB.
• The Mongoose library.
• Implementing CRUD: Create, Read, Update and Delete.
• The MongoDB Node driver.
• Using MySQL and TypeORM.

Module 10: testing Node/Express.js applications

• Using Mocha, Supertest and Jasmine.
• Assertions in synchronous and asynchronous tests.
• Testing methods.

Module 11: Node.js web frameworks

• Introduction to Hapi.dev.
• Introduction to Sails.js.
• Introduction to Nest.js.
• Introduction to Restify.js.

Module 12: deploying applications with Heroku

• Optimising code and assets: LESS, Browserify, Grunt and Minify.
• Heroku deployment stages.
• Using Grunt on Heroku.