Reddit reviews Practical Node.js: Building Real-World Scalable Web Apps

I really love nodeschool.io :)

Great that you're already quite familiar with Javascript, but if you haven't already read the excellent You Don't Know JS series by Kyle Simpson then I heartily recommend giving it a read.

Some recent titles that look pretty cool include:

• Node Design Patterns - this gets a lot of mentions and will teach design patterns that you can apply beyond a recent text's teachings of the current versions of Node, Express, etc
  
• Web Development with Node and Express - it covers Express 4.x
  
• Practical Node JS
  
• Pedro Teixeira's series on Leanpub
  
  Avoid titles like the ones listed in a recent reddit post as they (as as been commented) are pretty much history books.
  
  But things move pretty quickly so go through the nodeschool.io courses to get a good grounding then spend some time learning up on the good design patterns you could ("should") use as those will be more readily applicable.
  
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  Edit: I forgot to mention The Node Way as a potential resource.

I'd recommend a couple of things:

1. This repo has a great README and is my go-to for new projects: hackathon-starter
   
2. This book really helped me get a good handle on Node: Practical Node.js

Practical Node.js is pretty good.

Heres the table of contents:

> Chapter 1: Setting up Node.js and Other Essentials
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>Chapter 2: Using Express.js 4 to Create Node.js Web Apps
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>Chapter 3: TDD and BDD for Node.js with Mocha
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>Chapter 4: Template Engines: Jade and Handlebars
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>Chapter 5: Persistence with MongoDB and Mongoskin
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>Chapter 6: Using Sessions and OAuth to Authorize and Authenticate Users in Node.js Apps
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>Chapter 7: Boosting Your Node.js Data with the Mongoose ORM Library
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>Chapter 8: Building Node.js REST API Servers with Express.js and Hapi
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>Chapter 9: Real-Time Apps with WebSocket, Socket.IO, and DerbyJS
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>Chapter 10: Getting Node.js Apps Production Ready
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>Chapter 11: Deploying Node.js Apps
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>Chapter 12: Publishing Node.js Modules and Contributing to Open Source

It'll cover everything you will need to know to start building websites with node

I don't know about nodejs books for noobs in JavaScript , but here is a book I like to go-to ,and out professor recommended it too :

Practical node.js : building real world scalable web apps .

Practical Node.js: Building Real-World Scalable Web Apps https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1430265957/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_2v.QybQ46SPQY