LearningNodeJS

Getting Started

Essentials

Make sure you have node and npm installed. They can be found here.

Run node -v and npm -v on your command line. You should see something like:

C:\Users\User_name>node -v
v6.11.0
C:\Users\User_name>npm -v
3.10.10

Learn

Now that you have Node installed, Follow these steps to learn NodeJS in order:

• Look at the HelloWorld file
• Learn Modules
• Take a look at the NPM
• Learn Events and Callbacks
• Learn Uploading Files
• Learn MongoDB

Outcome

• Able to create a simple http webserver using node.js
• Able to connect to and query from a No-SQL database (MongoDB)

Where to go from here

I recommend learning a web developement framework such as ExpressJS to vastly speed up web application development.

Here is how I learned to use ExpressJS.

Questions and Concerns?

If you would like to make changes or add to any of this material, please contact me at prm170@g.harvard.edu or marella2@illinos.edu.

Credit

Most of this material can be found on W3Schools page here