The Node Beginner Book

The aim of The Node Beginner Book is to get you started with developing applications for Node.js, teaching you everything you need to know about advanced JavaScript along the way on 59 pages. Table of Contents......Page 6 Special notice......Page 7 Structure of this document......Page 8 JavaScript and You......Page 10 ``Hello World''......Page 11 The application stack......Page 13 A basic HTTP server......Page 15 Passing functions around......Page 16 How function passing makes our HTTP server work......Page 17 Event-driven asynchronous callbacks......Page 18 How our server handles requests......Page 20 Finding a place for our server module......Page 21 What's needed to ``route'' requests?......Page 23 Routing to real request handlers......Page 26 Making the request handlers respond......Page 30 Serving something useful......Page 37 Handling POST requests......Page 38 Handling file uploads......Page 43 Conclusion and outlook......Page 53