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Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere
Learn to make more efficient apps, with just one language! Smashing JavaScript Everywhere equips you with the necessary tools to understand Node.js and its uses in developing efficient web apps. With more traditional web servers becoming obsolete, having knowledge on servers that achieve high scalability and optimal resource consumption using Node.js is the key to your app development success. Teaching you the essentials to making event-driven server-side apps, this book demonstrates how you can use less space and take less time for communication between web client and server. Looking to enhance your abilities even further? Smashing JavaScript Everywhere makes developing server-side apps accessible with its focus on JavaScript, open source, and easy-to-use language.
320 pages, Paperback
First published January 18, 2012
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September 27, 2013
I'm currently reading this on SafariBooksOnline and I'm up to Part II.
Thoughts on Part I:
* Lots of misspellings in the code examples. Sloppy.
* Section that talks about arrays has errors (hint: call the filter function in your filter example, not foreach).
* Asynchronous I/O could have been written in more detail for someone who has never dealt with it (e.g. ACE Reactor, select()).
* Section entitled "Type hiccups" is very shallow in detail. Stack Overflow had a better explanation of the equality operator differences, which, in turn, were referenced from JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford.
Thoughts on Part II:
* The IRC client in Chapter Six is incomplete. Should have a handler to at least print out the data returned by the IRC server.
General:
* Section describing differences between vanilla JavaScript and V8 enhancements was very helpful
With some better proofreading/editing, this could be a 4 star book. If you've done programming using asynch I/O, events, buffers, then you will find this book to be a good overview of their equivalents in Node.js.
UPDATE (September 27th, 2013):
I had to drop this down to one star, just for the fact that many of the examples do not work.
Does the author have a repository of his code samples on GitHub or Bitbucket? If so, I couldn't find it. The author should back up his examples with evidence that they work.
Thoughts on Part I:
* Lots of misspellings in the code examples. Sloppy.
* Section that talks about arrays has errors (hint: call the filter function in your filter example, not foreach).
* Asynchronous I/O could have been written in more detail for someone who has never dealt with it (e.g. ACE Reactor, select()).
* Section entitled "Type hiccups" is very shallow in detail. Stack Overflow had a better explanation of the equality operator differences, which, in turn, were referenced from JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford.
Thoughts on Part II:
* The IRC client in Chapter Six is incomplete. Should have a handler to at least print out the data returned by the IRC server.
General:
* Section describing differences between vanilla JavaScript and V8 enhancements was very helpful
With some better proofreading/editing, this could be a 4 star book. If you've done programming using asynch I/O, events, buffers, then you will find this book to be a good overview of their equivalents in Node.js.
UPDATE (September 27th, 2013):
I had to drop this down to one star, just for the fact that many of the examples do not work.
Does the author have a repository of his code samples on GitHub or Bitbucket? If so, I couldn't find it. The author should back up his examples with evidence that they work.
February 24, 2013
Закончил с книгой "Smashing Node.js" от Guillermo Rauch. Книга предназначена для ознакомления с веб разработкой на Node.js. Автор на простых примерах демонстрирует возможности технологии, начиная с работы с TCP стеком, и постепенно повышая уровень абстракции над протоколом до HTTP, затем до middleware framework-ов Connect.js и Express.js, потом немного работы с сокетами через Socket.io, и на последок работа с БД (NoSQL/SQL). Попутно рассматриваются несколько движком для серверной шаблонизации, юнит-тестирование Node.js, базовые принципы асинхронной обработки данных и пара-тройка полезных библиотек. В целом впечатления от книги остались нормальные, но каких-то откровений, архитектурных особенностей и деталей работы Node.js ждать от книги не стоит - это просто введение в технологию для людей более или менее знакомых с JavaScript. Итог: 4 бала.
August 18, 2014
Wast of your time. It's like a comics book about programming matters. Shallow. Boring. Official tutorials could give you much-much more than this pile of nice paper.
It is color though. Like a good comics.
It is color though. Like a good comics.
March 30, 2014
I pushed through this book. The writing is good and clear, and I'd recommend it. I just realized I don't need this tech right now.
May 2, 2013
Too little on Node's core modules. Too much on outdated modules.
May 15, 2014
Talks about all of the basic node topics, good intro
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