Udemy Course: All about Node.js

I am working on a personal side-project for some friends and decided to build it using Node, Express, Mongo, and Passport.

About the time I was working on the database architecture I received a coupon via email for the Udemy course “All about Node.js” taught by Sachin Bhatnagar. The full price for the course is currently $150 but it comes up on-sale from time-to-time and coupons are often available.

The course is 64 lectures with 8 hours of video and a handful of quizzes. It took me 3 weeks to work my way through all of the lectures as I was also reading a couple of books on Safari Books Online and Learn All The Node http://www.learnallthenodes.com/.

Sachin’s class is great; the lectures about using Amazon’s CloudFront and EC2 alone are worth the full price of $150. He is very articulate, easy to understand, and does a great job breaking complicated systems into easy to digest lessons.

From the course description:

“My intent is hand hold you all the way from writing your first NodeJS app to deploying production level apps on the cloud.”

What am I going to get from this course?

• Over 64 lectures and 7.5 hours of content!
• Build High Performance and Scalable Apps using NodeJS
• Use NodeJS Streams to write a Web Server
• Use the Node Package Manager (NPM) for managing dependencies
• Use the Express 4 Framework for building NodeJS Apps
• Use the Hogan Templating Language
• Understand MongoDB as a NoSQL Database
• Create & Use MongoDB Databases using services like MongoLab
• Create Realtime Apps that use Web Sockets
• Upload & Resize Images using NodeJS
• Integrate Authentication using Social Media Sites like Facebook
• Structure the NodeJS app into modules
• Create and Deploy EC2 Cloud Server Instances on Amazon Web Services
• Create and Use Amazon’s S3 Storage Service with NodeJS
• Use Amazon’s Cloudfront Service
• Using Amazon’s Elastic IP
• Configure Security Groups, Ports & Forwarding on Amazon EC2
• Deploy a NodeJS app on the EC2 Instance
• Deploy a NodeJS app on Heroku
• Deploy a NodeJS app on Digital Ocean
• Install & Deploy NGINX as a Reverse Proxy Server for NodeJS Apps
• Configure NGINX as a Load Balancer

What is the target audience?

• Web Designers & Front End Developers who wish to extend their knowledge of Javascript for building high performance network applications.
• Software Developers who want to build high performance network applications.
• Absolute beginners with basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript, wanting to upgrade to professional Web Development and Building Web Apps.
• PHP, ASP.net, Perl, Java & Ruby coders wanting to leap onto the Node.Js bandwagon.
• Anyone who wishes to get hands-on training with setting up an Amazon EC2 Instance with a host of other services like Cloudfront, Elastic IP and S3
• Anyone who wishes to get hands-on training with deploying a NodeJS app on the cloud
• Computer Engineering students
• Tech Entrepreneurs who want to get their hands down and dirty with Web Coding & App Development.
• Anyone who wishes to stay on the forefront of technology!

I rate the Udemy Course: All about Node.js a 10 out of 10 and highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn Node.js and its surrounding technologies and frameworks.