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I'm flying tonight - are there any decent NodeJS PDFs/ebooks?

7 points by bdickason ↗ HN
I've been dipping my toes into learning Node over the past few weeks and have had alot of trouble finding great documentation. I generally learn best when coding, but will be on a four hour flight tonight with no wifi and would love to take a Node 'book' with me.

Any suggestions?

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RDDavies
I'm actually looking on a good "starter" on NodeJS. Most of what I've read seems to dive right in at a level above my head. (I'm reasonably familiar with Javascript, although 90% of what I write is utilizing jQuery nowadays, so I'm hazier about the core than I used to be.
bdickason
I found the 'How to Node' blog to have the best examples that actually contained working code (Express and other sites' example code doesn't seem to be updated or work): http://howtonode.org/

I also stumbled upon this node project on Github and was learning from how he put stuff together: https://github.com/kelper/Poll

auganov
I don't know of any, let alone decent.

I think the best you can do is find some tutorials but even in that department there's nothing to be crazy about.

So far it looks like the prime way to learn about it is to experiment (well I guess that's the best way anyways).

It would be a good idea to look into some general JavaScript specific stuff if you're not very familiar with it.

Or just download some sample projects from github and look at that during your flight, haha.

4 hours is not that much anyways, so you might just as well give up on it.