Escaping Callback Hell

Managing errors, naming functions, using function hoisting, declaring functions in the lowest possible scope, using async.series, using async.waterfall, using function.bind.

TCP Servers - episode 2

TCP service as a stream: Splitting the stream, parsing, encoding, error handling.

Tools, Tips and Tricks - episode 3

Nodemon: automatically restart your node process when a file changes.

Tools, Tips and Tricks - episode 2

Shutting down an HTTP Server in an orderly way.

TCP Servers - episode 1

Creating a TCP server; listening for connections; events emitted by connections; reading data; transforming data; using a transform stream to implement a service.

HTTP API Servers - episode 2

Restify Middleware. Route-specific middleware. Using Joi for validation. Validating middleware.

HTTP API Servers - episode 1

Boostrap a Restify Server. Add Routes. Resources. Logging.

Tools, Tips and Tricks - episode 1

Installing and using different versions of Node.js and IO.js in your development environment using NVM.

Asynchronous Programming - episode 8

Using async.queue for building a local work queue.

Asynchronous Programming - episode 7

Asynchronous Iteration using async; iterating in parallel using async.each; Mapping in parallel using async.map; Iterating in series using async.eachSeries and async.mapSeries; Limiting the maximum amount of parallel requests.

Asynchronous Programming - episode 6

Using async.parallel; Coordinating results between async.parallel and async.waterfall.

Asynchronous Programming - episode 5

async.series: running operations in series
async.waterfall: cascading results of series execution

Asynchronous Programming - episode 4

Serial Asynchronous Iteration, Serial Asynchronous Mapping, Limited Parallel Mapping

Asynchronous Programming - episode 3

Parallel Asynchronous Iteration, Parallel Asynchronous Mapping

Asynchronous Programming - episode 2

Coordinating Parallel Calls

Asynchronous Programming - episode 1

The callback pattern, Chaining calls, Avoid callback hell, Generalizing error handling.