Get Started With Node: An Introduction To APIs, HTTP And ES6+ JavaScript

An introduction to the backend web application development process - discussing bleeding edge ES6+ JavaScript features, the HyperText Transfer Protocol, working with APIs and JSON, and using Node.js to build fast and scalable backends. You've probably heard of Node.js as being an "asynchronous JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine", and that it "uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient".