[ANN] Node Cookbook

[Dave Clements]

Hello Everyone

I was looking for a good practical book about Node about 10 months ago, but I couldn't really find anything beyond the highly theoretical and 
everything I looked at seemed to have negative reviews. So I thought I'd do the research and write the book I wanted. 

So without further ado, I give you Node Cookbook, it's been published by Packt[1], and is available on Amazon[2], Safari Books Online[3] and other places (but getting it direct from Packt would save you money).

I've tried to include recipes from beginner to advanced, Chapter 1 starts with a recipe not dissimilar to the standard hello world recipe then takes you through to recipes that show how to secure your static file server etc. There's loads of stuff covered, like WebSockets, 
Jade/Stylus/Express, Redis/MongoDB/CouchDb/MySQL, SMTP, sending SMS text messages. 

Here's the TOC:

Chapter 1: Making a Web Server
Chapter 2: Exploring the HTTP Object
Chapter 3: Working with Data Serialization
Chapter 4: Interfacing with Databases
Chapter 5: Transcending AJAX: Using WebSockets
Chapter 6: Accelerating Development with Express
Chapter 7: Implementing Security, Encryption, and Authentication
Chapter 8: Integrating Network Paradigms
Chapter 9: Writing Your Own Node Modules
Chapter 10: Taking It Live

This group has been an invaluable source of information, and also in identifying what would be useful for people so I just want to say
a big thank you to everyone on this group for all the questions and answers and willingness to help. You guys are beautiful, 

Best regards, 
Dave

[Tim Caswell]

Congrats Dave! Achievement Unlocked - Finished writing a tech book.

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[Dave Clements]

Hey Tim,

Thanks :) yeah its fun to 'be an author', my main aim though was to provide a book that anyone with some Javascript abiliy could follow and be eased into Node - but in the process I know from the reviewers that theres some tidbits in there that even the experienced may not have come accross as yet. Anyway, thanks for the congrats!

Dave

[wavded]

David, just got mine in the mail.  Looks really good!  Was cool to read your biography as well!  Thanks for making it.

Marc