How do I get started with Node.js

[ansiace]

Are there any good resources to get started with Node.JS? Any good tutorials, blogs or books?

Of course, I have visited its official website http://nodejs.org/, but I didn't think the documentation they have is a good starting point.

[mdazfar2]

@ansiace You can follow these tutorials to get started:

Tutorials-

• NodeSchool.io interactive lessons

• The Art of Node (an introduction to Node.js)

• Hello World

• Hello World Web Server (paid)

• Node.js guide

• Build a blog with Node.js, express and MongoDB

• Node.js for Beginners

• Learn Node.js Completely and with Confidence

• Node JS Processing Model – Single Threaded Model with Event Loop Architecture

• RisingStack's Node Hero Series

• Great Node.js tutorials voted by the programming community

• Node.js Tutorial

• 30 days of Node

Developer Sites-

• Joyent's developer site for node
• Tutorials Teacher

Videos-

• Node Tuts (Node.js video tutorials)
• Einführung in Node.js (in German)
• Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl
• Node.js: Asynchronous Purity Leads to Faster Development
• Parallel Programming with Node.js
• Server-side JavaScript with Node, Connect & Express
• Node.js First Look
• Node.js with MongoDB
• Ryan Dahl's Google Tech Talk
• Real Time Web with Node.js
• Node.js Tutorials for Beginners
• Pluralsight courses (paid)
• Udemy Learn and understand Nodejs (paid)
• The New Boston

Screencasts-

• Learn All The Nodes
• Node Tuts
• Einführung in Node.js (in German)
• NodeCasts

Books-

• The Node Beginner Book
• Mastering Node.js
• Up and Running with Node.js
• Node.js in Action
• Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere
• Node.js & Co. (in German)
• Sam's Teach Yourself Node.js in 24 Hours
• Most detailed list of free JavaScript Books
• Mixu's Node Book
• Node.js the Right Way: Practical, Server-Side JavaScript That Scale
• Beginning Web Development with Node.js
• Node Web Development
• NodeJS for Righteous Universal Domination!

Courses

• Real Time Web with Node.js
• Essential Node.js from DevelopMentor
• Freecodecamp - Learn to code for free
• Udemy - The Complete Node.js Developer Course (3rd Edition) (paid)

Blogs-

• The Node.js blog
• How To Node
• DailyJS
• Nodejitsu blog
• Ryan Wilcox's Whitepaper
• devthought

Podcasts-

• NodeUp

JavaScript resources-

• Crockford's videos (must see!)
• Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners
• JavaScript garden
• JavaScript Patterns book
• JavaScript: The Good Parts book
• Eloquent javascript book

Node.js Modules-

• Search for registered Node.js modules
• A curated list of awesome Node.js libraries
• Wiki List on GitHub/Joyent/Node.js (start here last!)

Other-

• JSApp.US - like jsfiddle, but for Node.js
• Node with VJET JS (for Eclipse IDE)
  Production sites with published source:
• Node Knockout Hackathon (source)
• Freecodecamp - Learn to code for free (source)
• Useful Node.js Tools, Tutorials and Resources
• Runnable.com - like jsfiddle, but for server side as well
• Getting Started with Node.js on Heroku
• Getting Started with Node.js on Open-Shift
• Authentication using Passport