6 Advanced Node.js Courses
A list of Node.js courses that teach advanced concepts
I was curious to see what courses would people recommend for learning advanced Node.js concepts. Thus, I asked them on Twitter:
Thankfully, I received lots of suggestions, and I thought of putting them into an article format. The reason is that tweets get lost easily, so people might miss them.
Thus, by listing the courses here, people can find them easier. Without further ado, let's see those courses!
1. Node.js Official Guides
Some tools have excellent documentation, which you can use to learn core and advanced concepts. Node.js is no exception!
You can use the official guides to learn about core and advanced concepts such as:
- getting started with Node.js
- debugging
- diagnostics
- Node.js Event Loop
- timers
and many more. Thus, I encourage you to give it a go before using other resources.
Bonus: You can supplement your learning with the nodejs.dev website. I included this website because the official Node.js documentation points to this website as well! So they go hand in hand.
2. Complete Node.js Developer
This course, from ZeroToMastery, is one of the most comprehensive courses. It has 35+ hours of content, and it teaches you concepts such as:
- authentication
- databases
- file I/O
- sockets
- GraphQL/REST APIs
- security best practices
and many more.
Even though it starts by teaching the fundamentals, you will learn the advanced concepts as well. Additionally, you learn about various frameworks and build real-world applications!
Check the Node.js course to see more details about it!
3. Node.js Design Patterns
The Node.js Design Patterns is an ebook, and it's about best practices and design patterns. Thus, this ebook teaches you how to create efficient and robust Node.js applications.
You will learn about the asynchronous event-driven architecture and Node's fundamental design patterns. Besides that, you also learn about callbacks, promises, and async/await. Lastly, you will see Node.js streams, scalability and messaging patterns.
Above, you see only a few topics the ebook talks about. However, it talks about more topics and is more comprehensive.
This ebook prepares and teaches you how to build production-ready distributed applications in Node.js. You can check the ebook on the Packtpub website.
4. Distributed Systems with Node.js
The Distributed Systems with Node.js ebook teaches you how to build Node.js services that are scalable, resilient and observable. Besides that, you will learn how to use Docker, Dockerize a Node.js application, and container orchestration with Kubernetes.
This ebook teaches you what the vast majority of Node.js courses do not, and that is how to build scalable, resilient, production-ready Node.js application. Have a look at the official page, and you will see how comprehensive the ebook is.
I will get this ebook myself too!
5. Node Cookbook - Fourth Edition
The Node Cookbook teaches how to create, debug and deploy production-ready Node.js applications. It also talks about solutions to common problems and gives you tips on avoiding common pitfalls.
In this ebook, you will learn the fundamentals and the advanced stuff by building web applications with frameworks such as Express and FastifyJS.
Some of the topics from the ebook are:
- handling I/O
- web protocols
- testing
- streams
- performance optimization
- debugging
However, the list is not exhaustive, and I invite you to check the official page to see read more about the ebook.
6. Node University
Lastly, we have the Node University website. Node University has courses on different frameworks and tool from the JavaScript ecosystem. However, they focus primarily on Node.js.
The Node University is created by a team called "DevelopIntelligence", which is a company that provides training for software developers. Thus, you can be assured that the courses are taught by professional engineers.
They have many courses covering topics such as authorization, authentication, microservices, debugging and more. Check their page to see all the courses!
Conclusion
These are the main courses and ebooks that caught my eye from the replies. I tried to include the ones that focus only on Node.js.
There are many more, but they also include front-end frameworks and other stuff, which might only complicate the learning process.
If you have other suggestions, feel free to drop them in the comments!
Alternatively, you can check these 5 Node.js and Express tutorials.