Javascript resources

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Resources

Here are some resources for learning javascript and node

• JS for Cats
• Smashing Node.js
• Node - Up and Running
• Real-Time Web with Nodejs I haven't tried it so I'm not sure how good it is

Versions

• nvm - Node Version Manager

Asynchronous tips

If you do start doing some asynchronous javascript work of any sort the following are very useful

• You are missing the point about Promises
• Callback Hell

Modules

A very short list of some of the good modules out there

• Hapi - Web framework http://hapijs.com/
• Hapi-Swagger - Auto-generated documentation from endpoint validators
• Joi - https://github.com/hapijs/joi
• Loopback - Web framework for APIs http://strongloop.com/node-js/loopback/
• Express - Web framework like Sinatra https://github.com/visionmedia/express
• Request - Http requests https://github.com/mikeal/request
• Bluebird - Promises https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird
• Optimist - Options parsing for command line apps https://github.com/substack/node-optimist
• Bunyan - Logging https://github.com/trentm/node-bunyan
• Restify - web framework for building APIs https://github.com/mcavage/node-restify
• Passport - Authorization/Authentication http://passportjs.org/
• Helmet - Help secure Express apps with various HTTP headers (https://github.com/helmetjs/helmet)
• Lab - Test runner suite (https://github.com/hapijs/lab)
• Code - test assertion library (https://github.com/hapijs/code)
• Standard - JavaScript Standard Style — One Style to Rule Them All (https://github.com/feross/standard)
• ESLint - JS code linting (http://eslint.org/)
• ESFormatter - JS code formatting (https://github.com/millermedeiros/esformatter)

Front End

• React - https://facebook.github.io/react/
• Redux - https://github.com/reactjs/react-redux
• Material-UI - http://www.material-ui.com/#/
• React Tutorial - http://teropa.info/blog/2015/09/10/full-stack-redux-tutorial.html

Streams:

Streams are one of the most powerful features of node.js. If you are processing large amounts of data and you are not using streams, you are probably doing it wrong.

• Basic Streams Overview
• New streams api examples In node version 0.10 node.js switched to a new style of streams. These examples from strongloop are very useful in understanding how streams work in node version 0.10
• Node Stream Adventure Good interactive tutorial about working with streams in node.js

Design Patterns:

In JavaScript, as in all languages, there are good design patterns for your code

• Essential JS Design Patterns
• Idiomatic JS