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About the Book
Having been first published by Ryan Dahl in 2009, Node.js -- the open source software that allows the common web language of JavaScript to run outside the browser -- has absolutely grabbed ahold of imaginations in the world of technology in its first half-decade of life. The explosion of Node.js applications and the exponentially increasing number of published modules are a huge indicator of its success as a platform.
This book will teach you all about how to write an MVC (model-view-controller) web application using Express.js and MongoDB -- two of the building blocks that have been absolutely embraced by the Node.js community. Sone of the topics include (but are not limited to) templating engines, authentication, relational data, AJAX, and security. Working code samples for each chapter and a repository containing a fully functioning content management system (CMS) covering the same topics written in the same style as the code within the book are also included!
About the Author
Should I write in the 3rd person here? Ian Chursky (that's me) is a Seattle-area developer who has been working in the development world since interning as a web developer during the dotcom bubble days of early 2000 before attending college at Seattle University, graduating with a degree in Biology and minoring in Computer Science. After college he has worked at both giant, evil, multinational corporations and small creative dev shops and everything in-between. Professionally, he spends a lot of time in JavaScript (React, TypeScript, Vue.js, Knockout.js, Node.js Express.js) and in the Microsoft stack of technologies (ASP.NET/C#, .NET WebAPI, Azure, etc.) but has also been called upon to venture into the worlds PHP, Python, and Java. He lives in the general greater Seattle area with his wife and 2 daughters.