Node.js in Action, 2ed

- The book is more like a reference than a tutoring book. Unfortunately, I prefer to use the internet as a reference and was seeking for a tutoring book. The book does not teach you anything as a beginner- Manning gives you an offer: Once you buy a book, you can get your own free online soft copy. Nonetheless, Amazon is taking off the page that includes your code (the proof of purchase), so that they can sell you the kindle version aside (which today worth more than the hard copy). Moreover, the book cover becomes fragile when they rip off that paper.

Well done manual

This book was written by seven people and it reads that way. The text is disorganized and incoherent. If you want to learn about Node.js the book is worthless since there is practically speaking nothing about today's Node.js in the book. What the book does include is lots of discussion changes in Node.js over time along (why does anyone who wants to learn about Node.js care about deprecated versions of the langauge?) along with everybody's favorite framework and heaps of gratiuous advice about how to program. One might have hoped that the examples could be used to understand a Node.js construct they are so cluttered up with cute application details it isn't worth trying to declutter them.

This books seams hastily written and as such falls over pretty quickly. The code for the most part works, but there are a number of places where code is written that references other modules that have-yet-to-be-written or addressed. The authors make no mention of this and it often leaves the reader with a service that doesn't quite work.There's also an issue where at least one section (still working through the book) doesn't work the way the author's describe. In the Adding Basic Authentication section the author(s) are first mistaken about how a third party lib works (basic-auth), and then write an auth middleware package that doesn't actually authorize the credentials being passed to it. They parse the auth-headers, attempt to validate them against the data store, and when no user comes back due to incorrect creds, they just keep on going and allow the original query to go through to the caller. (pg 150 - 153)

I have been read some chapters and its good, though not for beginners...