The node beginner book : a comprehensive node.js tutorial

Contents......Page 4 Intended audience......Page 6 Structure of this document......Page 7 JavaScript and You......Page 8 A word of warning......Page 9 Server-side JavaScript......Page 10 ``Hello World''......Page 11 The use cases......Page 12 The application stack......Page 13 A basic HTTP server......Page 15 Analyzing our HTTP server......Page 16 Passing functions around......Page 17 How function passing makes our HTTP server work......Page 19 Event-driven asynchronous callbacks......Page 20 Finding a place for our server module......Page 25 What's needed to ``route'' requests?......Page 29 Execution in the kingdom of verbs......Page 33 Routing to real request handlers......Page 34 Making the request handlers respond......Page 40 Serving something useful......Page 54 Handling POST requests......Page 55 Handling file uploads......Page 63 Conclusion and outlook......Page 77