How to learn nodes in a quick and efficient way? Follow the path to learn nodejs in 19 days

Writen by Michael Chen

https://github.com/mkatsoho/nodejs-learning-path

• http - 2 day - https://www.tutorialspoint.com/http/

  using firefox rest console extension and Firefox firebug

• Restful web services - 1 day - https://www.tutorialspoint.com//restful/index.htm

  using firefox rest console extension

• Javascript - 4 days - https://www.tutorialspoint.com/javascript/

  • using Firefox firebug

  • focus on sending all kinds of requests to web servers

• JQuery (optional) - 3 days - https://www.tutorialspoint.com/jquery/

• nodejs - 4 days - https://www.tutorialspoint.com/nodejs/

  • use nodejs version 6+

  • instead of express, learn koa later in the path

  • use notepad/vi/sublime

• understand nodejs callback - 1 day

  • try setTimeout function

  • try async file IO functions, e.g. fs.writeFile(), fs.readFile()

• ES6/ES7 (optional) - 4 days

  the latest programming sugar for Javascript

  • in short - http://wiki.jikexueyuan.com/project/es6/ (Chinese)

  • longer - http://es6.ruanyifeng.com (Chinese)

• AVA - 3 days - https://github.com/avajs

  a perfect test framework

• mocha (optional) - 1 day - https://mochajs.org

  a test framework, perfect before AVA was born

• Express.js - 4 days

  • suggest to use KOA@2 instead of Expressjs
  • generate the first expressjs sample app https://expressjs.com/en/starter/generator.html

• KOA2 - 4 days

  • sample project using KOA2 and ES6 - https://github.com/jschill/koa-2-babel-6-async-example

  • tutorial - http://www.tutorialspoint.com/koajs/

  • use Webstorm IDE, to handle complex projects

  • (optional) koa2 tutorial - https://dinosaurscode.xyz/nodejs/2016/06/28/nodejs-koa2-tutorial/

  • (optional) Jade (now renamed as PUG), a html template - https://pugjs.org/api/getting-started.html

• Deep leaning on Javascript (optional) - 20 days

  • You Don’t Know Javascript - https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS 20 days

• Git (optional) - 2 to 7 days

  Manage codes in professional way

  short tutorial - http://gitlet.maryrosecook.com/docs/gitlet.html

  long tutorial - https://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/git-from-the-inside-out

  Long tutorial in Chinese - https://www.gitbook.com/book/bingohuang/progit2/details (Chinese)

• To be continued

  MongoDB, Mongoose

  Nginx & nodejs

  thrift & protobuf

  Redis, Kafka