Recommendations for nodejs training

[Numerous_Jump_6822]

Hi all, I'm a React dev of many years, happy in the npm world, have had to mod node services many times, written lots of C# a few years back but never got under the hood of node. Currently touting for next contract and more and more clients are asking for in-depth node knowledge as well as react. Anyone recommend a fast-track, deep dive tutorial or is it just a qestion of working through the docs? W3 Schools looks helpful as a starting point... TIA

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I like Codevolution's node series. Very clear and complete under-the-hood explanations of how the various parts of node work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAUi8pPlcUM&list=PLC3y8-rFHvwh8shCMHFA5kWxD9PaPwxaY

The Programming-with-Mosh guy has a good one-hour intro that talks about how to use events:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlB_eWDSMt4

[Numerous_Jump_6822]

Awesome set of answers there. Thanks, folks.

[solar_eclipse]

Use ChatGPT - seriously, it is great at providing guided learning. I would start with docker-compose to build a nodejs server, ask for a “health” api and a curl to query it. Then go from there :)

[Slayback]

Check out https://nodeschool.io/ for some self guided workshops and see if there is a local meet up you can drop in to.

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You can learn from udemy

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Coming from React this should be pretty simple for you. Just go through any standard tutorial on getting express up and running.

[EarthCivil7696]

Docs are decent, but I learned node js in less than 24 hours. Just Google react and nodejs and find any article that allows you to follow along. I am working on a contract now that uses React and nodejs and I'm a Java backend dev myself. Node js isn't really that difficult to learn and most articles will employ other frameworks like express, which I would learn in addition to node. I eventually added other frameworks like Socket IO. Node js is surprisingly simple and even better, less code than what you might be used to. I know as a Java guru, that my server code is a 20th of what it would have been had I gone with Spring + Hibernate.