Node's most valuable feature is the friendly and colorful community of developers. There are many places where this group congregates on the internet. This page attempts to highlight the best forums.
Periodicals
Planet Node is an aggregator of Node developer blogs. NodeUp is a podcast covering the latest Node news in the community.
Docs
Besides the official API docs there are a number of sites new users should be aware of. docs.nodejitsu.com answers many of the common problems people come across. How To Node has a growing number of useful tutorials. The Stack Overflow node.js tag is collecting new information every day.
GitHub
All development takes place at http://github.com/joyent/node. The comments on commit messages are often source of heated discussion regarding core development. The GitHub Node wiki is full of useful links for newcomers. Don't miss Projects, Applications, and Companies Using Node or the very long list of Node modules, many of which are published in the npm registry.
Bugs should be reported to https://github.com/joyent/node/issues. Fixes to the code are welcome! Please see our contirbuting guidelines for information on how to submit a patch.
Mailing Lists
The user mailing list is used for announcements, discussion, and flame wars about Node. The internal development mailing list is used for discussion of internal design and feature proposals.
IRC
For real-time chat about Node development go to
irc.freenode.net
in the #node.js
channel with an IRC client or connect in
your web browser to the channel using freenode's
WebChat. Felix Geisendörfer keeps logs of the
channel for those who miss a day.
Conferences
NodeConf conferences are the main event in the United States; they are organized by Mikeal Rogers. NodeFest (東京Node学園祭) is organized by the Node.js Japan user group. NodeCamp.de in Cologne, Germany is organized by Rails Love. An Italian Node.js Conference exists as well. Node Summit is a conference in San Francisco focusing on the adoption of Node in larger companies. JSConf organizes the main JavaScript conferences.
Localized Sites
nodejs.org
does not maintain any
translations into other languages. However there are
community websites in various languages with mailing lists
and translations of the website.
nodejs.ru Russian blog.
nodejs.ir Iran group in Persian
nodejs.jp Japan user group
CNodeJS.org Chinese community
nodejs.co.il Israeli wiki
HKNoJ Hong Kong community
nodejs.tw Taiwan community