Any good read into node as a networking tool?

[Majid Arif Siddiqui]

A lot of books only talks about how good node.js is as a web server. There is not much emphasis into it being an actual network server.

So is there any book that dives into this in depth? Like the 'net' module. The best practices in designing the servers.

[Matan Safriel]

I think you can find some stuff online. I think the evented and asynchronous nature applies to being a networks server more or less same as it does to a "web" (http) server. One word of caution is that programming a network server is a bit more sophisticated, or just different, than vanilla web app programming. You may want to consider the pros and cons of node.js before diving in.