Chapter 1, About Node.js, introduces you to the Node.js platform. It covers its uses, the technological architecture choices in Node.js, its history, the history of server-side JavaScript, why JavaScript should be liberated from the browser, and important recent advances in the JavaScript scene.
Chapter 2, Setting up Node.js, goes over setting up a Node.js developer environment. This includes installing Node.js on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Important tools are covered, including the npm and yarn package management systems and Babel, which is used for transpiling modern JavaScript into a form that's runnable on older JavaScript implementations.
Chapter 3, Node.js Modules, explores the module as the unit of modularity ...
