Node.js Web Development - Fifth Edition: Server-side web development made easy with Node 14 using practical examples

This book is great. I had some knowledge about full-stack JavaScript, but this book has already taught me a lot. I wouldn’t say that this book is for a complete beginner to software development (coding), but it’s definitely good if you need to deepen your understanding of JavaScript, or if you’re interested in getting started with JavaScript from another backend language like Python, C#, Ruby, etc.

Great book but hard to read with the kindle on my Imac, Ipad and Laptop because the app is slow and choppy.

Text was redundant and overly wordy. Author didn’t seem to want to start with the basics and took too long to get to the point

The book covers good ground and is easy to grasp. I did not really need to jump between the book and google to catch up wondering "what the author did there" which is generally the case in such books. It has been well written and would definitely get you up to speed with server side developer. I can now understand their lingo. The book gave me a clear perspective and also helped me with scalability. The project steps seem easy to follow and it works. Testing the application was pretty insightful from the author of the book.

When I get programming book, i am looking for something i can dive right into and start using in projects. This book takes forever to get into anything useful, I don't know why he dove into modules for so long without letting us know why they are so important or how they are used in real life situations. Also i find it pretentious when the stuff we are building in the examples is to show off their math skills with a Fibonacci generator or something like that. We are trying to learn node, i don't want to be bothered with trying to learn Fibonacci stuff

As a beginner with rudimentary JS knowledge and no knowledge of Node.JS at all , I found this book was not for the faint of heart.The impression (unfair, I am sure) on labouring through the first few chapters is that of a language (Javascript) in flux, and that of a platform (Node.js) in flux as well, so much so that I did consider giving up, going back to the well-established PHP/Apache/HTML/CCS/Javascript world, and waiting for things to stabilise before returning to this way of deploying web apps.If I was to give some advice, I would initially skip all the backward compatibility stuff, assume the reader was using/downloading the latest of everything, and get started a lot quicker. I would then delegate the compatibility or in-depth discussions to some appendix or chapters at the end of the book.It is possible that the style of writing of the book is well adapted to someone who knows Javascript/Node.JS very well already, and wishes to have an encyclopedic reference, in which case this book would (I imagine) work very well.

I am absolutely new to the world of server side programming with little experience in JS. I was skeptical on buying the book as it the books generally presume a lot of things to be known by its readers. But my gamble paid off. The book does justice to covering all the server side features. From developing, deploying and securing as well. The Let's encrypt part for Securing the site with HTTPS was pretty helpful and I can apply that to the other sites I've been working on as well. It is a bang for the buck!

This book is akin to learning to drive a car by you sitting in the driver's seat but having someone else steer the car and push on the gas peddle while describing how to drive it. You can feel what they are doing but you aren't doing it yourself. Thus you can't actually learn much from this book other than get some ideas of what you might need to learn more about down the road. The book would be better if it made us as readers do some exercises to learn the concepts, rather than just type or copy-paste what the author has himself already done.

This is a good book. It starts with the basics, and builds incrementally though each chapter to show how to build a mildly-complex demo app. The app isn't prod-ready by any means, but it does involve 2 Node services with 2 databases, so it's complex enough to touch on some of the more complex aspects of Node backend development.My complaints are that it relies on Docker Compose and Docker Swarm for the final chapters, which nobody is really using any more - and conversely, it mentions kubernetes, but doesn't even spend a paragraph explaining what it is or how to deploy a Node app to it. That's a huge miss, imho.This book also relies on handlebars and an older-style template-based view rendering paradigm, which is fine - but doesn't even touch on anything related to React/Vue/etc., or anything related to working with AJAX or SPAs on the frontend. This is a Node book, so that's ok, but it would be nice to have more frontend approaches covered.Finally, the book really doesn't do much to explain Express, and it doesn't explore any other frameworks at all - so again it would be nice to have more depth on these in the next edition.That said, the writing is clear, the samples are good, and it's a valuable book overall to anyone new to Node that wants to learn basic-to-intermediate Node development skills.

Update.Confermo la bontà del libro. Oltre a node.js spiega molte tecnologie complementari. Ad esempio introduce Docker o AWS EC2 per il deploy.A parer mio aver messo insieme tutte queste cose, ad un certo punto manda un po’ in confusione. Personalmente mi sono perso al deploy su AWS tramite Docker Swarm e Terraform. Quello che posso dire è che per apprezzare meglio questo libro serve conoscere bene Javascript, o ci si riduce a fare copia/incolla senza cogliere fino in fondo il perché di certe scelte.Infatti ho ordinato un altro libro specifico su javascript per rinforzare le mie basi. E poi magari mi rileggerò questo libro per riscoprire quelle sfumature che ora non colgo appieno.Sto studiando da qualche giorno questo libro.Mi pare ben fatto, spiegato bene.Mi rendo conto che node.js, visto anche il suo sviluppo, non sia semplice da spiegare ad un neofita, ma l'autore se la cava bene.Tuttavia ho notato dei refusi (niente di grave, per ora). Ho scoperto ora che sul sito della Packt, nella segnalazione refusi, non vanno messe virgole... altrimenti il modulo va in errore... buono a sapersi (anche per chi avesse rilevato errori, ma non è riuscito a segnalarli).Per ora, consiglio il libro a chi già conosce node.js ma anche a chi vi siavvicina per la prima volta.Se dovessi trovare lacune o problemi gravi con il libro, aggiornerò questa recensione.

Completo e professionale, ma completamente illeggibile. Un inferno per gli occhi, nessun colore diversificato per variabili, funzioni, nessun grassetto, nessun italico, niente, tutte scritte uguale indentate anche in modo fitto. Trovo questa mancanza di cura per l'estetica molto grave, visto che l'apprendimento passa anche da un incasellamento grafico dei concetti. Proverò a studiare i molteplici concetti importanti su questo manuale ma "ringrazierò" continuamente gli autori per gli sforzi inutili aggiuntivi che dovrò compiere.

Book is not laminated. You can see the damaged edges. Print is not dark. Unlike the image uploaded on site, book received is for sale in India edition. Received book from Repro On Demand for 1,695. Will review the Book content after reading..

All'interno del libro vengono trattati gli argomenti con un occhio moderno, anche perché recente.