Node Basics

Intro

Before NodeJS, there were no ways of writing servers in JavaScript. You would have to use another language, like PHP, Java, Ruby, or Python. That meant that you had to know at least two languages to write applications which utilize both a server and a web browser.

Then, in 2009, NodeJS was created. It allows you to use JavaScript to write code that can run on either the client or the server (or both). This provides incredible flexibility and gives more strength to the notion of ‘JavaScript Everywhere’.

This requirement will focus on the basics of NodeJS:

• Installing
• Running scripts
• Basic module loading and usage

• Suggested Learning

• Learn You Node - Follow the installation instructions.
• Streaming - Learn how to stream in Node

Requirements

• Do Learn You Node above. Show that you have completed it on the #requirements Discord channel.
• Do the Streaming tutorial above. Show that you have completed it on the #requirements Discord channel.

Extra Learning

This list is by no means complete. Feel free to add an issue or put in a pull request to update it.