I also recommend for node Guillermo Rauch's Smashing Node.js. Also Javascript the Good Parts by Crockford is the cononical language resource for Javascript, onc

I also recommend for node Guillermo Rauch's Smashing Node.js. Also Javascript the Good Parts by Crockford is the cononical language resource for Javascript, once you've reached your inevitable local maximum in just having knowledge of node.js and not much Javascript per se.