Usually, creating IoT projects means dusting off your college reference book for the C language and trying to wrangle a low-level language to do modern, high-level tasks. In this course, however, we're going to talk about the hardware devices available that enable writing JavaScript with Node.js to control motors, sensors, and switches while simultaneously using easy and modern node modules. In this course, we're going to walk through the creation of Tweet Monkey - a hilariously simple maker project. You can find more at tweetmonkey.io. We'll cover...

• the device landscape - which to choose
• a quick look at creating blink
• putting together a very basic electronic circuit
• writing node code to access Twitter's streaming API

Node.js package management is awesome and that's one of the biggest reasons to choose Node.js as a platform and also one of the biggest reasons that the Node.js community is so strong. You'll find just about any code package you can dream of in the repository. In this course on Mastering Node.js Modules, you'll learn...

• the difference between core modules, public modules, and local modules
• the difference between packages and modules
• how node looks for modules
• how to consume modules
• how to create modules
• and more