JavaScript & NodeJS

Part II

November 19, 2016

About Me

Organizer of CODE Norman

twitter: @bchirgwin

linkedin: linkedin.com/in/bchirgwin

Senior Software Engineer at Iteris

Workshop Expectations

• Pragmatic Approach
• Get out of it what you put into it
  • Workshop
  • Homework
  • Available for additional help
    • Most Thursday evenings
    • Other times on request

Workshops

• Git & GitHub - September 17
• NodeJS & Javascript - October 8
• NodeJS & Javascript Part II November 19
• Meeting Dec 17?
• Database & Data Storage - January
• AngularJS Front-end Development - February
• End to End Testing - March
• Review open source projects - April
• Code Norman Open Source Project Kickoff - May

News

• windows93.net
• JavaScript (& Node.js) continuous to eat the world 8/11

• Tulsa, not remote,  50K - 60K

• Frontend Web Developer with applied experience building responsive web applications.

• Required skills include: HTML5, CSS, responsive design, JavaScript or CoffeeScript Angular.js or Backbone

• Successful candidate would know CoffeeScript & Backbone, or could apply their JavaScript & Angular.js experience to learning these technologies.

• An ideal candidate would have at least passing familiarity with at least some of the following backend technologies: Node.js, Redis, Postgres, Java

Entry Level Position

Ariana Petrella
Recruiter
JoCo
918.398.7593*108 | Office
apetrella@joco.com
www.joco.com

Don't be afraid to fail

Experiment

• Wright Brothers
• Thomas Edison
• Albert Einstein

Practice, Practice, Practice

• Programming Katas
  • Short exercise of about 30 minutes
  • Repeat with several ideas
• CodeKata
• Project Euler
• CodeWars
• CodeKatas.org

Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

• Visual Latency Numbers
• Latency Numbers

RESTful

• REpresentational State Transfer
• www.domain.com/resource/{id}?q
• HTTP Methods
  • GET
  • PUT
  • POST
  • DELETE

GET example

• reply with a list of users
• method: GET
• Url: www.domain.com/users
• GET method does not accept a body

GET {id} example

• reply: user with id = 123
• method: GET
• Url: www.domain.com/users/123

POST example

• adds user & reply: user including id
• method: POST
• Url: www.domain.com/users/
• body: {
     firstname: 'Brian',
     lastname: 'Chirgwin'
  }

PUT example

• Updates user with id 123
• method: PUT
• Url: www.domain.com/users/123
• body: {
     firstname: 'Brian',
     lastname: 'Chirgwin',
     middleInitial: 'T'
  }

Node Project Part 1

• npm - node package manager
• third-party libraries
  • hapi - web server framework
  • lodash - utility library
  • joi - validation library
  • boom - easy html errors (404, etc...)
• Create a RESTful service for a resource
• Use browser and postman to send requests

Node Project Part 2

• third-party libraries
  • Lout - create documentation
  • Jasmine - test framework
• RESTful POST, PUT endpoints for service
• Use browser and Postman to send requests

Raffle

• JetBrains IDE

random.org

WebStorm

PhpStorm

PyCharm

RubyMine

AppCode

CLion

DataGrip

Rider

IntelliJ IDEA