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Discussion on: What is your learning roadmap when you first started learning Node.js?

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Attila Molnar

Play around with runkit it runs node.js in your browser. It is like CodePen, but for node.

It nicely "simulates" I/O, like file system and networking operations.

Explore the examples and play around by cloning and modifying them as you like.

It has a nice output, for example if you got map coordinates from an API it will show the position on Open Street Map. Check this example.

You can also use glitch which support node.js and client side JS alike, bit it is still in beta. Don't let the design deceive you, it is developed by the same folks as Stack Overflow. My guess it will be most advanced online code-prototyping platform soon, however recently runkit is better.

In the beginning it is more useful to play around with little, but interesting mini projects, than writing a humongous one and notebooks constrain you to do that.