alsotang/node-lessons

Features

• Node.js Server Basics - Teaches the fundamentals of building HTTP servers, defining request routes, and implementing middleware chains in Node.js.
• Node.js Fundamentals - Provides comprehensive educational resources covering the core concepts and built-in modules of the Node.js runtime.
• Backend Implementation - Provides comprehensive instruction on building server-side applications, routing, and business logic using Node.js.
• Database Integrations - Teaches how to establish connections and operations for both NoSQL and SQL databases.
• Document Stores - Implements the storage and retrieval of semi-structured information as JSON document objects.
• NoSQL Databases - Guides the integration of non-relational document stores for flexible schema management.
• Integration Guides - Provides detailed lessons on connecting Node.js applications to NoSQL databases, including object mapping and horizontal scaling.
• Object-Document Mappers - Implements mapping layers that translate database documents into programmable JavaScript objects.
• Middleware-Based Request Pipelines - Implements modular chains of logic functions to process incoming HTTP requests and decouple business logic.
• Asynchronous Flow Control - Teaches techniques for managing the execution order of asynchronous operations using promises and flow control.
• Asynchronous Programming Tutorials - Provides instructional materials focusing on non-blocking I/O and promise-based concurrency patterns.
• JavaScript Tutorials - Provides an instructional guide on managing concurrency and flow control using promises and callbacks in JavaScript.
• Promise-Based Flow Control - Teaches asynchronous control flow using promises to replace nested callbacks and manage operation sequences.
• Node.js Test Automation - Offers a structured approach to automating unit, API, and browser tests specifically for the Node.js runtime.
• Application Testing Workflows - Implements a combined workflow of unit, browser, and integration tests with coverage reporting.
• Request Dispatchers - Implements systems that map incoming HTTP request paths to specific handler functions.
• Server Implementation Guides - Provides detailed instructional material on implementing HTTP servers, request routing, and middleware chains.
• HTTP Server Implementations - Provides instructions for building a functional HTTP server to handle web requests.
• Middleware Chains - Implements the structural pipeline pattern for processing requests through a sequence of middleware functions.
• Request Routing - Implements mechanisms to direct incoming network requests to appropriate handlers based on URL paths.
• Web Application Development - Provides a comprehensive guide to building web applications with servers, middleware, and session management.
• Web Application Frameworks - Guides the creation of web applications with integrated routing and server-side logic.
• Data Scraping - Implements data extraction from websites using network requests and headless browser techniques.
• HTML Parsing - Provides tools for extracting and manipulating data from HTML content using CSS selectors.
• NoSQL Schema Mappings - Provides logic for translating programmable objects into flexible NoSQL document schemas.
• Database Backend Integration - Offers lessons on connecting applications to various database backends with a focus on document mapping.
• Server-Side Session Stores - Explains how to maintain user state across requests using server-side session stores.
• Parallel Callback Aggregation - Implements patterns for executing multiple asynchronous tasks in parallel and aggregating their results.
• Task Automation Tools - Provides utilities to automate repetitive development workflows and test execution through command-line interfaces.
• Sequential Task Execution - Demonstrates how to execute a series of asynchronous functions in a strict linear sequence.
• Web Scraping - Provides tools and techniques for extracting structured content from web pages and URLs.
• CI Workflow Automations - Demonstrates how to automate the sequence of building and testing code changes within a CI pipeline.
• Node.js Guides - Offers a guide on fetching HTML and extracting data using CSS selectors within a Node.js environment.
• Asynchronous Flow Coordination - Teaches patterns for coordinating and synchronizing multiple concurrent asynchronous operations.
• Function Context Binding - Explains how to fix the this value of a function to maintain consistent object context.
• Asynchronous Error Handling - Teaches techniques for capturing and propagating exceptions within asynchronous promise-based flows.
• Prototype-Based Inheritance - Demonstrates how to simulate object-oriented inheritance using JavaScript's prototype-based model.
• Variable Scope Controls - Provides lessons on managing variable visibility and lifetime through function-level and global scoping.
• Cookie Management - Provides tools and interfaces for handling and injecting HTTP cookies during network operations.
• Cookie Security - Instructs on encoding and encrypting web cookies to ensure the privacy of sensitive session data.
• Cookie Signing Utilities - Implements cryptographic signatures on cookies to detect and prevent client-side data tampering.
• Secure Session Management - Teaches the management of user identity across requests using secure, signed browser storage.
• Session & Cookie Handlers - Provides functionality to maintain user sessions and state across multiple requests using browser cookies.
• Closures - Covers the implementation of closures to retain access to variables from an outer lexical scope.
• Concurrent Task Limiters - Implements mechanisms to restrict the number of active asynchronous operations to prevent resource exhaustion.
• Application Error Handlers - Demonstrates how to implement infrastructure components that map technical errors to user-friendly responses.
• Concurrent Request Limits - Implements restrictions on the number of simultaneous active requests to maintain system stability.
• API Testing - Includes practical exercises for validating server responses and edge cases via API endpoint testing.
• Headless Browser Test Suites - Includes automated test suites executed within headless browser environments to validate DOM-dependent logic.
• Code Coverage Analysis - Provides a framework for measuring code coverage to identify untested logic in server-side applications.
• Frontend Unit Testing - Provides tutorials on executing JavaScript tests within a browser environment to validate DOM-dependent logic.
• Functional Verification - Teaches the use of test frameworks and assertion libraries to verify the correctness of code functions.
• Web Scraping - Teaches techniques for fetching HTML content and extracting structured data using CSS selectors.

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