Tech Library

Node: Up and Running: Scalable Server-Side Code With JavaScript ***
Tom Hughes-Croucher and Mike Wilson
This book introduces you to Node, the new web development framework written in JavaScript. You'll learn hands-on how Node makes life easier for experienced JavaScript developers: not only can you work on the front end and back end in the same languag...

Web Workers: Multithreaded Programs in JavaScript ***
Ido Green
Web apps would run much better if heavy calculations could be performed in the background, rather than compete with the user interface. With this book, you’ll learn how to use Web Workers to run computationally intensive JavaScript code in a thread p...