Welcome

Thank you for purchasing the MEAP for Tiny Node Projects. To get the most out of this book, you’ll want to have some familiarity with ES6 style JavaScript syntax and concepts. It will help to have some understanding of how web protocols like HTTP work and the basics of a web server. Knowledge of HTML and CSS are not required but may assist you in enriching your projects. Read this book with creative energy to explore Node.js and you’ll be prepared to apply the concepts best in practice.

When I first wrote Get Programming with Node.js I had envisioned a style of learning I had not yet seen in a book’s format: a 3-month coding boot camp intensive course. I designed that book to bring entry-level developers to an intermediate-level understanding of Node.js web applications. Readers of that book were receptive to the style, encouraging its use to propel one's career in JavaScript development and even as a standard in college-level coding courses. While I enjoyed the writing process, Node.js, and JavaScript, were still moving quickly. I knew that by the time that book was published there would be new popular changes to the language and leading npm packages to recommend for use in projects. Fast forward to today, the Tiny Projects series presents a unique opportunity well suited for Node.js projects. Tiny Node Projects gives me the opportunity to dive into meaningful application architecture concepts across multiple types of projects.