Node.js Recipes - Apress (2013) PDF

Title: Node.js Recipes
Author: Cory Gackenheimer
Language: English
Published: 21 October, 2013
Publisher: Apress
ISBN: 1430260580
Format: PDF



Description:
Node.js is a server-side framework useful for building highly scalable and fast applications. Node.js is a platform
that is built on v8, the JavaScript runtime that powers the Chrome browser designed by Google. Node.js is designed
to be great for intensive I/O applications utilizing the nonblocking event-driven architecture. While Node.js can
serve functions in a synchronous way, it most commonly performs operations asynchronously. This means that as
you develop an application, you call events with a callback registered for handling the return of the function. While
awaiting the return, the next event or function in your application can be queued for execution. Once the first function
completes, its callback event is executed and handled by the function call that invoked the callback. This event-driven
processing is described in Node.js very own definition:
This book is about Node.js. In particular this book is designed as a recipe book, which aims to provide a large set
of useful and high-quality examples of what Node.js is capable of accomplishing. This book is geared for a developer
who has some experience with JavaScript and at least some exposure to Node.js. By reading this book, you will gain
an understanding of many of the highly utilized modules, both those native to Node.js and those written by third-party
contributors, that are the main targets for Node.js developers.