The Node Beginner Blog

JavaScript is a language and an ecosystem which constantly evolves. This changes the way we can write JavaScript and Node.js code, and it often demands special tooling to be able to do so. This tutorial shows how to set up a project with Babel and Webpack, which allows you to write modern ES6 JavaScript code for the browser and the server.

The first issue of our monthly JavaScript ecosystem and community overview gets you covered with the most important reports, tutorials, and resources of the month.

The WebSocket protocol is an extension to the HTTP ecosystem which allows to create live connections between a web server and a web browser, enabling web applications to efficiently exchange data in real-time without the overhead of conventional HTTP connections. Node.js is perfectly suited for writing WebSocket applications, and this tutorial explains how it all works.

When you write Node.js applications, you could actually put all your code into one huge index.js file, no matter how large or complex your application is. The Node.js interpreter doesn’t care. But in terms of code organization, you would end up with a hard to understand and hard to debug mess quite quickly. So as a human being, you should care about how to structure your code. This is where modules come in.

The more complex your Node.js applications become, the more you need to think about the so-called control-flow of your code. Especially when the need arises to optimize operations in terms of efficiency and performance by introducing background operations and parallelity, the code can quickly become a mess. Let’s see what that means and what we can do about it.

The recently released version 8.0.0 of Node.js made the experimental implementation of the WHATWG URL parser from Node.js v7.0.0 non-experimental and fully supported. Here’s what you can use it for.

The Node.js team has recently released a new major version of Node.js - Node v8.0.0.