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crl: getting-started-with-nodejs-node-postgres Getting Started with Node.js and node-postgres

Getting Started with Node.js and node-postgres

Learn how to use CockroachDB with the node-postgres driver.

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  • Course Number

    getting-started-with-nodejs-node-postgres

  • Self-Paced

  • Estimated Effort

    1+ hours/week

About This Course

In this course, you will be learning how to properly use CockroachDB inside of a simple microservice. You will start with a pre-built microservice and add the necessary components to communicate with the database using the node-postgres driver.

Prerequisites

  • JavaScript/Node.js
  • Basic SQL

Detailed course outline

  • Introduction
    • Lecture: Introduction
    • Development Environment
    • Exercise: Set up a Serverless Cluster
    • Exercise: Introducing MovR
    • Exercise: Create your Database
  • Connect to the database
    • Lecture: Connection Pools
    • Quiz: Connection Pools
    • Exercise: Connect to the Database
  • Reading and Writing Data
    • Lecture: Implicit Transactions
    • Quiz: Implicit Transactions
    • Exercise: Reading and Writing Data
  • Retrying Transactions
    • Lecture: Transaction Retries
    • Quiz: Transaction Retries
    • Exercise: Retrying Transactions
  • Conclusion

Course Staff

Wade Waldron
Wade Waldron
Senior Staff Curriculum Developer

Wade has been a Software Developer since 2005. He has worked on video games, backend microservices, ETL Pipelines, IoT systems and more.

He is an advocate for Test-Driven Development, Domain-Driven Design, Microservice Architectures, and Reactive Systems.

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