I found chapter 13 on Comet (long polling, socket.io, etc.) especially interesting. Speaking as a beginner, it seems like a good reference for a beginner. :)
Every Node-newbie should read and understand the chapter on Control Flows (http://book.mixu.net/ch7.html), particularly the async for loop. This tripped me up with my little node app (http://urlpipe.com) before I refactored it to use recursion (and then eliminated the problem by using Redis Pipelining).
But it still strikes me as one of those "think differently" parts of Node
Thanks for pointing this out. That chapter was a complete eye opener for me. When you're new to not just Node but programming itself - understanding the terms used is in itself a challenge. I'm writing my very first app and i chose to do it in Node. I started to suspect i was going to hit the problems described in this chapter very soon but i had no clue what terms to search or where to look.
At least now i know what control flow actually means, and while i havent understood the examples completely at least its given me enough of a taster to start thinking about it.
Intermediate. It would work well as the second book you read on JavaScript (or, given the way most devs come to JavaScript, the book you read after reading a book on jQuery). But there's stuff in there that even experienced devs might not know about, like Promises and control flow libs like Async.js.
This online book is very well done, at least the parts I read today. BTW, the author's main web site http://mixu.net/ lists an impressive number of earning and utility projects. Someone who enjoys writing code!
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At least now i know what control flow actually means, and while i havent understood the examples completely at least its given me enough of a taster to start thinking about it.