Node.js Manual

Welcome to the Node.js Manual!

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices. — The official Node.js website

This manual consists of three different sections:

• The Node.js API Reference documents the core Node.js modules
• The Node.js Guide contains articles and code samples on coding in Node.js
• The Javascript Reference contains doucmentation about the Javascript language

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Contributing

You can help! This website is a community effort, and is available on GitHub. The API Reference will be in synch with the official Node.js stable APIs.

Use the [edit] links near the article titles to edit them online into the Cloud9 IDE. After writing and updating articles, you can issue a pull request.

Getting started learning Node.js

Here are some tutorials to get you started with Node.js:

• Writing Asynchronous Code

• Creating an HTTP Server

• The Node Package Manager

Node.js Community

For additional resources with Node.js:

• The official Node.js mailing list

• The Node.js IRC Channel, #node.js on freenode.net. A log of the channel is available at http://nodejs.debuggable.com/

• The official Node.js Wiki

• The Node.js source code on GitHub

• Planet Node.js, an aggregator of Node.js developer blogs

• NodeUp, a podcast covering the latest Node.js news in the community

• More Community-powered Node.js docs, community powered rocket fuel for Node.js

• Node Guide, an opinionated and unofficial guide to help people getting started with Node.js

• NodeCloud, an ordered Node.js resource directory allowing to evaluate relative popularity of a project.

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