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Treehouse

Node.js Basics

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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.

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