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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

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

• Express - Web framework like Sinatra https://github.com/visionmedia/express
• Request - Http requests https://github.com/mikeal/request
• Q - Promises https://github.com/kriskowal/q
• Optimist - Options parsing for command line apps https://github.com/substack/node-optimist
• Anything by Substack https://github.com/substack https://github.com/substack?tab=repositories
• 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/
• Mocha - Test runner suite (http://visionmedia.github.io/mocha/)
• Chai - test assertion library (http://chaijs.com/api/assert/)

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] (http://strongloop.com/strongblog/practical-examples-of-the-new-node-js-streams-api/) 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 pattersn for your code *Essential JS Design Patterns