Node.js concepts & administration, Express.js, V8 engine, monitoring, pm2 Training Course

Express.js

• Installation of Express.js
• Directory structure of an Express.js application
• Creation of a server
• Routing & Middleware functions
  • Error handling
  • server side Logging
  • …
• Server side modules: HTTP, HTTPS, URL, SSL/TLS, Cluster, DNS, Process & child process, REPL, Zlib
• Load balancing in association with nginx

Node.js - the foundation (Concepts and architecture only)

• Node.js, V8 & Server side development
  • Blocking vs. Non-Blocking
  • Event-driven Programming
  • Event Loop & the single threaded demultiplexer
• npm as a package manager
  • Dependency mechanisms
  • The package.json file
• Version migrations

V8 engine internals

• Performance
• V8 as a compiler
• Memory schemes
• Garbage collection
• Memory leaks

Monitoring

• Monitoring with sematext
• Monitoring with ruxit
• …

1.5 PM2

• Application packaging and deployments
• Nodejs+pm2 runtime packaging and deployment
• Nodejs scripts package
• Checking and switching nodejs version
• Filesystem locations and standards
• Logging
• Init scripts
• SSL/TLS certificates
• Monitoring
• Stop, start, delete, resurrect applications
• Stop, start, resurrect PM2 process