Tutorials. Pdf/handson-nodejs-sample.pdf. The Node Beginner Book » A comprehensive Node.js tutorial. Mastering Node. Node is an exciting new platform developed by Ryan Dahl, allowing JavaScript developers to create extremely high performance servers by leveraging Google's V8 JavaScript engine, and asynchronous I/O.
In Mastering Node we will discover how to write high concurrency web servers, utilizing the CommonJS module system, node's core libraries, third party modules, high level web development and more. In this chapter we will be looking at the installation and compilation of node.