Resources for The Illustrated Guide to Node.js

• Get the latest slides at SpeakerDeck
• Makin' Bacon bacon ipsum generator demo app
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Why Node?

• Node.js is Here to Stay

Node Help!

• Node.js Slack Community
• #nodejs channel on OpenJS Foundation Slack
• nodejs/help

Install Node.js

• Use nvm on Mac, Linux, or Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)!
• On Windows but not using WSL? Use nvm-windows!
• Or... download and install from Node.js

Learn Node.js

• Awesome Node.js - Curated list of Node.js packages and resources
• Learn Node.js on Pluralsight!
• Node Weekly Newsletter
• Learn Node with Wes Bos!
• Nodeschool
• "Dockerizing a Node.js web app"

Recommended Frameworks

• Fastify - Great developer experience, low overhead, powerful plugin architecture, and one of the fastest
• Nest.js - TypeScript-first framework running on top of Express or Fastify
• hapi.js - A rich framework for building applications and services
• Express - fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework
• Electron - Build cross platform desktop apps. Slack and Visual Studio Code are Electron apps!
• nexe - Compile command-line applications into a single executable

Recommended Tools

• eslint - JavaScript linter
• nodemon - Monitors project for changes and automatically restarts process
• dotenv - Loads environment variables from a .env file
• fs-extra - Adds useful extensions to the Node file system library, such as JSON support
• jest - JavaScript testing framework
• testdouble.js - testing and mocking library
• commander - library for parsing command-line arguments for building command-line interfaces (CLI)