• Understand the JavaScript and technical concepts behind Node JS
• Structure a Node application in modules
• Understand and use the Event Emitter
• Understand Buffers, Streams, and Pipes
• Build a Web Server in Node and understand how it really works
• Use npm and manage node packages
• Build a web application and API more easily using Express
• Connect to a SQL or Mongo database in Node
• Understand how the MEAN stack works

• Basic Knowledge of JavaScript and OOPS
• Knowledge in async programming will be added advantage

• Introduction
• What is Node JS?
• Advantages of Node JS
• Traditional Web Server Model
• Node.js Process Model

In this chapter, you will learn about the tools required and steps to setup development environment to develop a Node.js application and to work with the REPL to work with the Console.
• Install Node.js on Windows
• Installing in mac os
• Working in REPL
• Node JS Console

• Functions
• Buffer
• Module
• Module Types
• Core Modules
• Local Modules
• Module.Exports

This deals with working with npm to install and update packages Updating your package to the NPM and managing and updating your current Packages.
• What is NPM
• Installing Packages Locally
• Adding dependency in package.json
• Installing packages globally
• Updating packages

• Creating web server
• Handling http requests
• Sending requests

In this module, we will work with files, reading, writing, updating files, and the concept of chunks, buffers, and uploading files synchronously and asynchronously.
• Fs.readFile
• Writing a File
• Writing a file asynchronously
• Opening a file
• Deleting a file
• Other IO Operations

In this chapter you will learn how to debug node js application. Debugging is a process of tracing the bugs and performance issues to optimize your code.
• Core Node JS debugger
• Debugging with Visual Studio

In this chapter you work with the events in Node JS, and the significance of the events, writing your own events because Node is event driven framework.
• EventEmitter class
• Returning event emitter
• Inhering events

In this chapter you will learn how to use express framework to create web applications. Express is the most popular framework to build efficient web applications with minimum coding.
• Configuring routes
• Working with express

In this chapter you will learn how to serve static html pages to the browser, and serving other file formats and restricting certain files. In this you will to serve static resources with built in middle ware.
• Serving static files
• Working with middle ware

In this chapter you will learn how to connect to SQL Server and perform CRUD operations. It is like ADO.net for MS.NET applications and JDBC for java. We will use different Node JS modules to connect with database.
• Connection string
• Configuring
• Working with select command
• Updating records
• Deleting records

In this chapter you learn how use template engines to perform 2 way databinding and appending dynamic data to the webpage and different view engines and their sytax.
• Why Template Engine
• What is Jade
• What is vash
• Example