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Getting Started with RethinkDB

By : Gianluca Tiepolo
Book Image

Getting Started with RethinkDB

By: Gianluca Tiepolo

Overview of this book

RethinkDB is a high-performance document-oriented database with a unique set of features. This increasingly popular NoSQL database is used to develop real-time web applications and, together with Node.js, it can be used to easily deploy them to the cloud with very little difficulty. Getting Started with RethinkDB is designed to get you working with RethinkDB as quickly as possible. Starting with the installation and configuration process, you will learn how to start importing data into the database and run simple queries using the intuitive ReQL query language. After successfully running a few simple queries, you will be introduced to other topics such as clustering and sharding. You will get to know how to set up a cluster of RethinkDB nodes and spread database load across multiple machines. We will then move on to advanced queries and optimization techniques. You will discover how to work with RethinkDB from a Node.js environment and find out all about deployment techniques. Finally, we’ll finish by working on a fully-fledged example that uses the Node.js framework and advanced features such as Changefeeds to develop a real-time web application.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Getting Started with RethinkDB
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring the router


When you design the routes for a web application, you should think about all the features that the application should provide to the user and map these features to an HTTP request.

In our example app, the user will need to load the homepage, get a list of all existing notes, create a new note, update a note's position, and delete a note. What we should do now is create an API for our app, which creates a route for all of these actions. I've personally organized it with the following routes:

  • get (/: This route gets called when the user visits the app's homepage from his browser and is responsible for rendering the view to the screen

  • get (/notes: This route allows us to request a list of all existing notes that are stored in the database

  • post (/notes: This route is called when the user creates a new note

  • post (/note/:id: When the user moves a note, a request to this route is performed, passing the note's ID

  • delete (/note/id: Finally, this route allows us to delete a specific...