This book is about shell scripting with Node﹒js. You will learn: - How Node﹒js works: - Its foundations: its architecture, its event loop, etc. - Its API: How to use its global variables and modules. - What npm packages (the de-facto standard for JavaScript packages) are. - How to use npm (the package manager bundled with Node﹒js) to: - Install and manage packages. - Create and publish packages. - How to write cross-platform package scripts for running development tasks such as generating artifacts and running tests. - How to use all of the aforementioned knowledge to create and deploy cross-platform shell scripts.