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Node.js First Steps
One week to running JavaScript outside the browser
A one-week classroom course on the opening sections of the Node.js Learn curriculum: getting started, the command line, manipulating files and asynchronous work. You run scripts, use npm, read and write files, and learn why Node.js does not wait. This course prepares for no exam.
6Modules
IntermediateLevel
1 weekDuration
COURSE THUMBNAIL
What you will be able to do
Run and debug a Node.js script
Install and use an npm package
Read and write files without blocking
Course outline
01
Introduction to Node.js; how it differs from the browser
02
Running scripts, the REPL, input, output and environment variables
03
The npm package manager
04
File paths; reading and writing files and folders
05
Callbacks, promises, timers and the event loop
06
Anatomy of an HTTP transaction
Tools you will use
Node.jsnpmVisual Studio Code
What you need
Basic JavaScript
