Foreword

When I first heard about Node.js, it was back in 2011, and there were pretty much a handful of identifiable people and companies in the world using it. It was hipster back in those days; we started a company to specialize in Node, we started the Dublin Node Usergroup in May 2012, and out of 100 attendees on the first night, two shy hands rose when the group was asked "so how many of you are using Node?"

I met David Clements in the fall of 2012, when he had just published the first edition of the Node Cookbook. Eventually, David joined nearForm and many many adventures followed, including the fulfilling experience of our group helping the biggest users of Node.js to succeed.

As nearForm has grown, we have built the deepest and broadest collective of core engineers and app developers in the world, and it is with great pleasure that we have been able to enable and support David to write this book.

David and his group at nearForm are at the cutting edge of the Node project, and this book is a reflection of the deep learning and experience that David has amassed.

Cian Ó Maidín,

nearForm CEO