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Professional Development with JavaScript

Where fullstack JavaScript developers are forged.

Node.js

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1. Introduction to Node.js

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2. Installing Node.js

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3. Basic Node Functionality

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4. NPM

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5. JSON

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6. Demo: Node.js Basics

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7. Test Yourself: Node.js

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8. Node.js Hello World!

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Asynchronous Programming

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9. Introduction to Asynchronous Programming

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10. The Call Stack and Event Loop in Node

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11. File I/O Basics and Callbacks in Node

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12. Promises

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13. Using the Node Debugger

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14. Demo: Exploring Async Node.js

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15. Test Yourself: Asynchronous Programming

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16. Building with Async Node.js

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Web Programming in Node

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17. Introduction to Web Programming in Node

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18. The Server-Client Model

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19. Basic HTTP

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20. Node as a Web Server

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21. Handling HTTP Requests with Node

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22. Demo: Simple Node Server

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23. Test Yourself: Web Programming in Node

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24. Build a Node.js Server

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The Express Web Framework

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25. Introduction to Express

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26. Hello Express

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27. Templates

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28. Middleware

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29. Deploying with Heroku

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30. Demo: Demo: Odin and Friends

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31. Test Yourself: Express

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32. Assignment: Personal Portfolio

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Basic API Interaction

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33. Introduction to API Interaction

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34. Approaching a New API

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35. Demo: Writing the API Wrapper

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36. Test Yourself: Basic API Interaction

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37. Assignment: GitHuh?

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Project: Professional JavaScript

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38. Project Walkthrough: Professional JavaScript

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Warm Up: Taming the API

Preparing the final project by getting its innards in order, starting with a well-designed API wrapper.

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Main Event: Building the App

It's time to finish things up by connecting your beautiful, modular API wrapper to a web interface using Express.

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