Presentation of node versions
Principle of a Web server
Comparison between server
JavaScript reminders

Workshop: Download and install NodeJS

Manage node versions (nvm vs n)
The interest of javascript on the server side
Testing commands with REPL
The single-threaded event loop
The non-blocking API
The Google V8 engine

Workshop: Running the first scripts with REPL

Emmascript history Strict
mode overview Ecmascript
support in NodeJS (node.green)

Presentation and description
npm: node package manager
Presentation of the module library
Include modules in a project: require
Local or global installation
The package.json file
Manage dependencies (production and development)
npm and npx
Add scripts
Create and publish a module

Workshop: Testing npm

The Node API documentation
The Process classes: events, flows, etc.
Use standard outputs (stdin, stdout, stderr)
Global, Console (log, errors, trace), Buffer, Streams
variables __filenames and __dirnames Capture
and broadcast
Les Timers  events

Read and write files
Manage paths and urls
Create, delete, rename files and folders
List the contents of a file

Workshop: handling files

Presentation of callbacks (callback function)
Principle of Promises
Callbacks vs Promises
Implementation of promises
Transformation of a callback function into a promise
Async / await functions

Workshop: Using promises

The « http »
Request and Response module
Modify the headers
Parse a url
Display a message on the browser
Manage static pages
Add a template engine
Retrieve the request and form parameters

Workshop: Create a server

Presentation of « Express »
Create an Express project
Middleware
Manage http verbs
Morgan, Helmet, etc. modules
Encrypt data with bcrypt

Workshop: Using Express

Connect to SQL and NoSQL databases
Retrieve a DBMS connector
Execute queries and retrieve results
ORMs and ODMs: sequelize and Mongoose

Workshop: Connect a database

Debug our pages using chrome
Use the code inspector (–inspect)
Presentation of Mocha
Assertions in NodeJS: assert
The Chai module
Synchronous and asynchronous tests
Hooks

Workshop: Launch several tests

Workshop : Set up a REST API with authentication