People and places you should get to know

Knowing a technology also means knowing the community centered around it. Here is a compilation of twitter handles, websites, blogs of people and organizations, from where you can get the latest happenings in the world of node.js. You will also get a lot of inspiration and node.js best practices from these sources.

Official sites

• Home page: http://nodejs.org

• Manual and documentation: http://nodejs.org/api

• Wiki: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki

• Blog: http://blog.nodejs.org/

• Source code: https://github.com/joyent/node

Articles and tutorials

• The node aesthetic: http://substack.net/node_aesthetic

• Asynchronous control flow with promises: http://howtonode.org/promises

• The philosophy behind node.js and what you should keep in mind while writing node modules: http://blog.izs.me/post/48281998870/unix-philosophy-and-node-js

• This is how Substack writes modules: http://substack.net/how_I_write_modules

• The place to get started with streams: https://github.com/substack/stream-handbook

Community

• Official mailing list and forum: http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs

• Official issue tracker: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues

• Unofficial forums: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/node.js

• Official IRC channel: #node.js on irc.freenode.net, and the web URL: http://webchat.freenode.net/

• FAQ: http://docs.nodejitsu.com/

Blogs

• Nodejitsu team has node.js at the core of their PaaS, they often write about their challenges, failures, and successes with node: http://blog.nodejitsu.com/

• Isaac Schlueter is a core node.js contributor and is currently leading the node.js development. He is also the author of npm. This is the place where he blogs: http://blog.izs.me

• Substack has authored more than 100 node modules and he shares his experience, and philosophy on this blog: http://substack.net/

• Planet node.js compiles blogs from a number of sources and has rich content, http://www.planetnodejs.com/

• Strong loop very frequently spreads the news about what is happening in node.js world http://blog.strongloop.com/

Twitter

• Issac Schlueter: https://twitter.com/izs

• TJ Holowaychuk: https://twitter.com/tjholowaychuk

• Nathan Rajlich: https://twitter.com/TooTallNate

• Nuno Job: https://twitter.com/dscape

• James Halliday: https://twitter.com/substack

• Max Ogden: https://twitter.com/maxogden

• For more Open Source information, follow Packt at http://twitter.com/#!/packtopensource