I'm a complete newbie, how can I learn Node.Js + Express + MongoDB?

Question

I want to make it clear that I have no prior experience programming, I only have experience in HTML and SQL, everyone seems to be like "Look like the documentation" well yes that sure helps me! sniff *sniff* is there a book that could be recommendable or a series of webcasts?

Solution 1

Welcome to the wonderful world of node.js!

I myself have also just started learning Node.js and often asked myself "what is express?" "Why use express over node?" etc.

Express is a fantastic web framework so you can develop robust applications with having a lot of the hard stuff done for you :)

I highly recommend reading through his examples to have a feel how it all gets put together: https://github.com/visionmedia/express/tree/master/examples

I found this screen cast very helpful in myself learning the basics: http://vimeo.com/38136668

Proloser goes through explaining how to start a new express application, how to connect it to mongodb and explains how and why everything works :) He's created it for new noders.

Us noders hang out on irc.freenode.net in the #node.js channel. Come and ask any questions you have and we will help set you on track :)

Solution 2

• I want to make it clear that I have no prior experience programming,
• I only have experience in HTML and SQL

Based on these two points, first you should learn programming. You want to learn NodeJS+Express+MongoDB which 3 of them are completely different things from what you already know.

1. First start with Javascript. This is more than enough: http://www.w3schools.com/js/
   • Write your scripts to a file named try.js and execute them with node try.js and see the results!
2. Then try to learn how a web application is built. Two basics for you:
   • You request something from server via HTTP, http://myapp.com/users/all
   • Server processes requests, and sends you a result in HTML
   • Your browser displays it.
   • More information at: http://www.slideshare.net/nbrier/how-to-build-a-web-app-for-nonprogrammers
   • Look the ExpressJS web site, and go step by step, and TRY EVERYTHING there
3. Then learn MongoDB, this is not SQL database, it's a NoSQL database, I do not know why you want to learn it, however, experimenting with http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Tutorial will definetely help. But all you have to do is looking in to examples. To use MongoDB from Node, you can use Mongoose.

Comments

[user519753]

Those examples aren't gonna help since the code looks like chinese for me.