Node.js For PHP Developers

If youre a PHP developer, you too can take advantage of the incredible capabilities of Node.js. This book provides several practical recipes for porting your existing PHP code to Node, and what you can achieve with this open source framework once youre done. By comparing specific PHP features with their Node counterparts, author Daniel Howard demonstrates how the concept behind PHP has evolved in Node.

In the process, Howard details experience porting his own SourceForge project from PHP to Node, with specific search-and-replace commands that you can use to transform the code. Youll also learn the similarities between PHP and JavaScript.