Get started with Node.JS

• Node.js Introduction
• Applications of Node.js and Installation
• First Node.js Script
• Synchronous and Asynchronous Programming
• Under the hood – Understanding the event loop Non-Blocking I/O

Interactive Node with REPL

• REPL and REPL Commands
• Node.js CLI Commands
• Global and Local Objects

Modular Programming NPM

• Introduction to Modules
• Process and OS Modules
• Writing Your Own Module
• Introducing NPM
• Initializing a Project Using npm init
• Understanding package.json
• Installing using packages from npm
• Local vs.Global Install
• Using NPX
• Publishing Package on npm

Introduction to ECMAScript Modules – An experimental implementation

• ECMAScript Modules Versus CommonJS Modules
• Enabling support
• Writing an ECMAScript Module
• Importing and Using an ECMAScript Module
• ES6 syntax in detail

File System Streams

• File System Modeling in Node.js
• Directory and Path Resolution
• Reading Files Synchronously and Asynchronously
• Writing Files Synchronously and Asynchronously
• Directory operations

Streams

• Understanding Streams
• Reading a File Using Readable Stream
• Writing a file using Writable Streams
• Transform Streams
• Streams vs Files

Events

• Event Emitter
• Handling Events

Network I/O

• Introduction to the Net module
• Creating a TCP Server Listener
• Creating a command line chatbot

Web Servers More

• Web Server: Web Application Architecture
• HTTP module
• Making HTTP requests
• Serve JSON as response
• Serve HTML as response
• Building a basic web server with routes and streams: Serve a static website
• Using HTTPS
• Using HTTP/2
• Understanding CORS

Debugging in NodeJS

• Introduction to debugging
• Debug node js apps

Cluster Worker Threads

• Introduction to the Worker Threads API
• Handling compute intensive tasks using Worker Threads
• Node.js on multi-core CPUs using Cluster

Introduction to Express

• What is a Node.js web application framework?
• BYOF – Build Your Own Framework
• Introducing Express
• Who uses Express?
• Hello Express
• Your first Express app
• Adding a route handler
• Serving Static Assets HTML files

Rendering

• View Engine – Pug
• Building the Dashboard
• Building the Post Card.

Middleware

• What is middleware?
• Parsing incoming requests
• Logging with Morgan
• Using the express-session middleware
• Compression Your own middleware

Routing

• Modular routing with Express Router
• Organizing routes
• Dynamic Routing Route parameters
• Basic route protection using middleware

Database Integration

• Working with MongoDB Atlas
• Setting up Mongoose ODM
• Building the Users schema model
• Building the Posts schema model
• Serving the client web application

Authentication, Controllers, and APIs

• Signing up an Admin Password Hashing
• Admin Authentication – Controller and Route
• Authentication API – Controller and Routes
• Posts API – Controller and Routes
• Profanity Filtering and Post Moderation

Caching Performance

• Setting up Redis for caching
• Caching and Serving Content
• Configuring Redis as the session store

Protecting Express apps

• Handling untrusted data
• Preventing XSS CSRF

Deployment E PROJECT

• Deploying a Node and Express app on Heroku