Node.js Basics

Overview

In this course we will create a command line application to retrieve user's profile information from the Treehouse website. We'll be writing our application in JavaScript to run on the Node.js platform.

What you'll learn

Write command line applications in Node.js
Talk to an API with Node.js
Organize your code with modules
Deal with streams
Handle with errors

Syllabus

Introduction to Node.js

Node.js is a JavaScript environment that allows you to perform a multitude of tasks and build all sorts of exciting applications.

In this section we'll discuss, what node is, why you'd use it and how to use it.

Building a Command Line Application

Node.js can be used to make all sorts of applications. In this section we'll build our project, a command-line application to retrieve student's profile information from the Treehouse API.