What is NodeJS?
Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment that runs on the V8 engine and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser.
What do you need?
- Knowledge of HTML and CSS
- Knowledge of Javascript library like JQuery or Bootstrap (Not Neccessary)
- Knowledge of NodeJS
Projects to build to learn about NodeJS
1. Portfolio App
First thing you need is refining the basics of NodeJS. By creating the portfolio app, You will learn about servers, clients and How to create a server. This will also help you to get started with HTML and CSS if you haven’t done already.
There are multiple elements you can use to give a good experience to user, like presenting the application and the output with a good appearance.
The next thing you have to work on is the architecture of the whole project. It includes the code you are writing to make a light-weight and easy to use application, routes of the web application, how to serve /assets files on your server and middlewares etc.
2. Meme Generator
What are APIs?
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are constructs made available in programming languages to allow developers to create complex functionality more easily. They abstract more complex code away from you, providing some easier syntax to use in its place.
After you have finished refining basics of NodeJS, You need to learn about APIs and How to use them in your app. You will learn to create a Meme Generator which you will make with the help of imgflip meme api, that generates a meme with the request you make.
3. Realtime Chat app
What is a real-time app?
When someone sends you a message in a chat app, and you receive that message on your phone, or you get a push notification, that notification or message is received in real time.
As simple as it looks, It has exact opposite effects on people. It use to frighten new programmers because of it complexity and knowledge of events. But as you make your concept more clear, It becomes easier and There will be time where you will no longer find it hard.
It will teach you concepts of realtime events, data handling and socket programming.
4. Chatbot
A chatbot is a software application used to conduct an online chat conversation via text or text-to-speech, in lieu of providing direct contact with a live human agent.
This chatbot can be used to talk to your clients if you are understaffed or It can be used to automate task.
You will learn NLP (Natural Language Processing), Machine Learning and Basics of Nodejs Library. This will help you to come up with solution that is vital for business handling and Improve efficiency of work.
5. Blogging Website from Scratch
A blog is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page.
You can make it as your website that you will use to divert your friends and clients to see what you’ve been up to in your down time.
The process to create a blogging website is simple. However, This will be fun exercise to test your fundamentals of Nodejs and all you have learnt by building the previous projects.
This is all for today guys. Hope you will build these projects and learn something new.
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