Becoming a Node.js developer 🐢🚀

This document’s purpose is to share my personal experience and resources to those who would like to become a Node.js back-end developer 😎.

My experience and opinions will strongly influence this paper 👿 (so I invite you to keep a strong critical mind towards me to build your own path 🐤).

This document is not set in stone and will evolve as much as I deem necessary over time.

Summary

• 👋 Introduction
  • 👀 Who am I?
  • 👊 For whom?
  • 💬 Why?
  • 😬 The required investment
  • 📌 Legends
• JavaScript
  • 📕 Dedicate a daily time to reading
    • 📖📐 Practice with a book
  • 💪 Challenge yourself regularly
    • 🏫 Nodeschool
    • 🔎 The other websites
    • 🏆 Competitive programming
  • 🌌 Online courses, talks and articles
    • Udemy vs Frontend Masters
    • 📄 Articles
      • Axel Rauschmayer
      • Jake Archibald
      • Others
    • 📺 Talks
  • 🔧 Engine & VM JavaScript (V8 etc)
    • 😡 The dangerous hype of benchmarks
• ⚡ ECMAScript
  • JavaScript or ECMAScript ?
  • ECMAScript 6 (ES2015)
  • JavaScript: 20 years
  • TC39
• TypeScript
  • 🙊 TypeScript is secondary
  • 🐲 Resources on writing type annotations
• 🐢 Node.js
  • 🐥 Resources for beginners
  • 🌐 Discovery of the HTTP Node.js ecosystem
    • 💡 Native HTTP server with Node.js and some links on the protocol.
    • 🚁 Framework Small scope
    • ✈️ Framework Big scope
    • 🌠 Framework Full-stack
    • 🎯 How to choose
  • 📰 Conferences and Articles
  • 🎡 Event-loop
    • Reactor pattern
    • 🎥 A bit of history
    • Libuv
    • 📜 Articles et talks
  • 👽 Native API (native addon creation in C and C++)
  • 📟 CLI
  • 📦 Packages
  • 🔍 Debugging & Profiling
  • Modules (CJS & ESM)
  • WebSocket
  • 📊 Unit testing and coverage
    • 💃 Méthodologies
  • 🌟 The different core modules
    • Console
    • Events
    • Path
    • FileSystem (fs)
    • Timers
    • URL (API WHATWG)
    • OS
    • Child Process
    • Utilities
    • VM
    • Assert
    • Zlib
    • Readline
    • perf_hooks
    • async_hooks
    • Crypto
  • NPM
  • 💾 Database
    • Introduction
    • Influence of Node.js on the chapter
    • The importance of learning SQL
    • PostgreSQL
    • MySQL & MariaDB
    • MongoDB
    • Redis
    • SQLite
    • Others DB
    • ORM or not ?
  • 📡 MQTT (broker)
    • Introduction
    • Redis
    • RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ
    • Autres
  • 🔐 Security
    • Introduction
    • Audit
    • Keep your environment under control
    • Direct and indirect dependencies
    • Supply Chain Attack
    • Common Security Breach
    • Static Analysis & AST
    • Additional links and resources to read
    • If security is an area that interests you
  • GIT
  • 🌇 Architecture & Paradigms
    • SemVer
    • CalVer
    • JSON Schema
    • Documentation
    • Clean code
    • Object Oriented Programming
    • Design patterns
    • Compiler & Interpreter
    • DDD (Domain Driven Design)
    • Others
  • 🔬 Monitoring
    • Introduction
    • API
  • 💻 System
    • Introduction
    • Scripting: Shell, Bash & Powershell
  • Thanks