The Node Beginner Book

Table of Contents......Page 6
Special notice......Page 7
Structure of this document......Page 9
JavaScript and You......Page 11
``Hello World''......Page 12
The application stack......Page 14
A basic HTTP server......Page 16
Passing functions around......Page 17
How function passing makes our HTTP server work......Page 18
Event-driven asynchronous callbacks......Page 19
How our server handles requests......Page 21
Finding a place for our server module......Page 22
What's needed to ``route'' requests?......Page 24
Routing to real request handlers......Page 27
Making the request handlers respond......Page 31
Serving something useful......Page 39
Handling POST requests......Page 40
Handling file uploads......Page 45
Conclusion and outlook......Page 55