I am learning about node.js. This is my cheatsheet. It may not be useful to you at all.
Also see My JavaScript Cheatsheet.
Documentation
- API Docs: http://nodejs.org/api/
- Debugger: http://nodejs.org/api/debugger.html
- Cluster: http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/cluster.html
- Up and Running with Node.js: http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449398583/
- Async JavaScript: Build More Responsive Apps with Less Code by Trevor Burnham: http://pragprog.com/book/tbajs/async-javascript
- A short guide to Connect Middleware
Installation
- Downloadable installers: http://nodejs.org/download/
- Installing via various package managers: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager
- Source code: https://github.com/joyent/node
Debugging
Utilities
- npm - package manager for Node
- supervisor - automatically restarts Node-based server when files change
- nodemon - automatically restarts Node-based server when files change
- forever - ensures that a script runs continuously
- Winser - runs Node as a Windows service, using nssm
- docco and docco-husky - documentation generator
- node-inspector - browser-based debugging interface
Modules
These libraries are especially useful (to me, for what I have done):
- Express - web application framework
- Connect - middleware framework
- Jade - template engine
- Socket.IO - support for WebSockets and other connection mechanisms
- Request - simplified HTTP requests
- xml2js - simple XML-to-JavaScript converter
- nconf - configuration files
- PDFKit - PDF generation
- Backbone - client-side data models, views, UI binding
- Underscore - functional programming helper library
- Async.js - asynchronous JavaScript
- Q.js - asynchronous promises
- Mocha - testing framework
- should.js - BDD-style assertion library
- Chai - BDD- and TDD-style assertion library
See https://npmjs.org for a complete list of all available modules.
Creating a New Web App with the Express Framework
If you don't already have the Express framework installed, do this:
npm install -g express
To create a new app, do this:
express --sessions MyNewApp
cd MyNewApp
npm install
To run the app:
cd MyNewApp
node app
By default, the app will listen for requests on port 3000, so you can browse to http://locahost:3000/ to view the app. Modify app.js or set the PORT environment variable to use a different port.