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Re: The Node Beginner Book

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Post by nathanwdavis »

WA wrote: post #7
nailer wrote: post #2

Good things: - Tells me what I'll make with the tutorial right up front. - Lets me know exactly what prerequisite knowledge is (I can tick all those boxes, good). - Aimed at folks who know traditional backend languages and some JS but aren't JS Gods (a lot of node tutes seem to assume complete JS mastery). No bad things so far! Thanks Mr Dumas.

Bad things: Shows the very same tutorials over and over and over again. Last week, I tried to get my hands on NodeJS in a reasonable short time. That means, I wanted to write a basic web app with some AJAX in NodeJS having 1 or 2 days to actual learn it and another 3 days to implement the app. As much as I would love to see NodeJS to become more widespread, it's not gonna happen with these sparse amount of informatio…

You don't HAVE to build from source:

   brew install node
And I think there is a deb package as well. But, I think I remember someone on the core team recommending to just build from source for now. I have not been doing that and it has been fine though.

Re: The Node Beginner Book

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Post by Apocryphon »

I've asked this already (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2447840) but what books on JS are good for someone who wants to go into development with Node? Most texts that I know of deal with client-side JS. Right now I'm just reading Eloquent Javascript + JavaScript: the Good Parts, but I would like to see if there's any other books that would be good, especially for someone new to closures.

Re: The Node Beginner Book

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Post by nathanwdavis »

Apocryphon wrote: post #35

I've asked this already ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2447840 ) but what books on JS are good for someone who wants to go into development with Node? Most texts that I know of deal with client-side JS. Right now I'm just reading Eloquent Javascript + JavaScript: the Good Parts, but I would like to see if there's any other books that would be good, especially for someone new to closures.

I thought Javascript Patterns by Stoyan Stefanov was pretty good and not too client-side centric.

Re: The Node Beginner Book

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Post by beck5 »

ManuelKiessling wrote: post #21
beck5 wrote: post #19

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More node resources the better at the moment. A simple CRUD application guide would be very helpful. The java Play! Framework site has a really nice basic blog tutorial which is perfect for understanding the entire process. I plan on starting my first node app in 6 weeks so please hurry up ;)

Hi, 6 weeks should be doable, I started the site last friday :-)

Well I really enjoyed what I see so far. Partially just from the great links you recommended!

If you do have a CRUD style app I always like being able to download the finished version for when I am stuck (which is often), nothing quite like looking at the entire code to see where I am going wrong.

Re: The Node Beginner Book

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Post by telemachos »

Apocryphon wrote: post #35

I've asked this already ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2447840 ) but what books on JS are good for someone who wants to go into development with Node? Most texts that I know of deal with client-side JS. Right now I'm just reading Eloquent Javascript + JavaScript: the Good Parts, but I would like to see if there's any other books that would be good, especially for someone new to closures.

I think newer Javascript books are beginning to add or expand sections on client-side uses and node.js in particular. Two that I know have sections are Test-Driven JavaScript Development[1] and JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Ed[2]. The TDD chapter on node is probably already out of date in some respects, the Definitive Guide no doubt will soon be out of date, and both are smaller/smallish. There is also Tom Hughes-Croucher's Up and Running with Node.js[3], which is in progress and available through O'Reilly's open feedback system.

At the moment, blog posts and online tutorials seem to be the way to go, though you have to be careful there too. Node seems to be moving very, very fast, so things will likely require a medium amount of tinkering, even if they were written two weeks ago.

[1] http://tddjs.com/

[2] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596805531

[3] http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449398583/

Re: The Node Beginner Book

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Post by ManuelKiessling »

thenduks wrote: post #28
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Hi thenduks, thanks for this one! I changed the CSS as you suggested and updated the site, it's now scroll-bar free down to 1000px.

Sweet, looks awesome. Btw, on a positive stylistic note. I love the big container and big text. Too many sites these days have tiny microscopic text -- I couldn't read that stuff if my life depended on it, and my eyes are 20/20! :)

Yeah, I hate that too. The only thing even more evil are sites that present you a tiny font on mobile devices AND don't allow you to zoom.

But saying this, I have to admit while http://nodebeginner.org can be zoomed on the iPhone, the font could still be a bit bigger for my taste (but on the normal site it's ok how it is).

Any idea how to tell CSS that I want an even bigger font on Mobile Safari?

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