If you already know JavaScript… I ah, I'm sorry, this doesn't actually answer your question. But if you don't mind me rephrasing your question as "What should I do to master node.js?" then I can answer that:
Aria (aredridel) introduced me to the idea of "code katas" for learning new concepts and I think it's quite valuable. That is, find modules solving problems in the spaces you want to master and try to reproduce their behavior yourself. If you need a hint, you've got code right there to inspect. The idea behind code kata's isn't necessarily to write a complete module that you share with others, but rather to implement enough to fully understand the concept. Or to understand how to best implement a concept you already know in a new language. I found this invaluable when first learning node. (I've done all of these, to various degrees, across a few languages.) To really wrap your head around Node.js, callbacks and event driven programming these come to my mind immediately: * Implementing your own version of EventEmitter. * Implementing some of the functions from the async module– the functional programming core at least (that is: map, filter, reduce, some, every). * Implementing stream.Transform streams that map/filter/reduce and getting very used to pipe to combine them together. Bonus, if you're interested in promises: * Implementing the same functions as you did with async, only for promises, eg: map, filter, reduce, some, every. * Implementing promises/futures (as this is an exercise, don't limit yourself to the A+ or ES6 versions, work with concept not a spec) -- Rebecca On August 4, 2014 at 2:15:50 AM, Martin Ransome (martin.s.rans...@gmail.com) wrote: What should I read to master node.js? -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/b887330c-14c3-423e-b78e-c8bfe4e53475%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/etPan.53e010b2.79e2a9e3.ec1b%40sierra.manhunt.local. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
