What's About?

This a set of small tutorials explaining fondammentals of nodejs implementation.

Basically NodeJS is stack of C++ and Javascript source code. The most important part of nodejs is based on V8 which is a JavaScript engine written and maintained by Google and embedded into Chromium, Atom-Shell and other open source projects. It use libuv as core library to deal with all kind of streams and events. In addition of other libraries which we list bellow:

• zlib for compression/uncompression and HTTP GZip capabilities
• cares for DNS lookup
• openssl for crypto and SSL over HTTP
• ICU as part of V8 dependencies, for internationalization and unicode support
• http_parser a small library for HTTP protocol parsing

You might want to look at code source of those libraries into deps subdirectory of nodejs code base. I don't recommand so, I think it's preferably to forget about it at this moment and follow up this document.

For Whos And Why?

I'm writting those tutorials step-by-step for all those who want to hack in nodejs internals and reinvinting the wheel. There are a large community of nodejs developers who understand very much how it works and can dig into JavaScript part very easy, but few of them touch to C++ side. So those tutorials will help people how want to play under the nodejs hood's. I'm targeting specially people with knowledge/experience in C++ and small Javascript tought.

So.. How?

As I said before tutorials are split into several parts which introduce concepts one by one. First, tuto1 introduce how we can properly prepare V8 Host environment and initialize the platform to -then- compile&run a simple hello worl JS script.

• tuto2 .....