Node.js Fundamentals — Roadmap Step & Resources
What Node.js is, the runtime, global objects and the event loop on the server
- Level: intermediate
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: MEAN Stack
Interview questions
- How is Node.js's event loop different from the browser's?
Study resources
- Node.js Tutorial for Beginners: Learn Node in 1 Hour (Video) — Programming with Mosh's well-loved introduction to what Node.js is and how it runs JavaScript outside the browser.
- Node.js Introduction (Article) — The official Node.js documentation's own beginner introduction.
- The Node.js Event Loop, Timers, and process.nextTick() (Article) — The official Node.js guide explaining the V8 engine, non-blocking I/O, phases of the event loop, and libuv.
- Node.js Crash Course Tutorial (Video) — Traversy Media's comprehensive starter crash course covering Node architecture, core modules, and scripts.
Part of
- Node.js — section
- MEAN Stack roadmap — the full learning path