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Node.js Design Patterns - Second Edition

By : Luciano Mammino, Purra, Mario Casciaro
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Node.js Design Patterns - Second Edition

By: Luciano Mammino, Purra, Mario Casciaro

Overview of this book

Node.js is a massively popular software platform that lets you use JavaScript to easily create scalable server-side applications. It allows you to create efficient code, enabling a more sustainable way of writing software made of only one language across the full stack, along with extreme levels of reusability, pragmatism, simplicity, and collaboration. Node.js is revolutionizing the web and the way people and companies create their software. In this book, we will take you on a journey across various ideas and components, and the challenges you would commonly encounter while designing and developing software using the Node.js platform. You will also discover the "Node.js way" of dealing with design and coding decisions. The book kicks off by exploring the basics of Node.js describing it's asynchronous single-threaded architecture and the main design patterns. It then shows you how to master the asynchronous control flow patterns,and the stream component and it culminates into a detailed list of Node.js implementations of the most common design patterns as well as some specific design patterns that are exclusive to the Node.js world.Lastly, it dives into more advanced concepts such as Universal Javascript, and scalability' and it's meant to conclude the journey by giving the reader all the necessary concepts to be able to build an enterprise grade application using Node.js.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter, we explored the innovative and fast-moving world of Universal JavaScript. Universal JavaScript just opened up a lot of new opportunities in the field of web development, but it is still quite a fresh and immature field.

In this chapter, we focused on introducing all the basics of this subject, discussing topics such as component-oriented user interfaces, universal rendering, universal routing, and universal data retrieval. Throughout the process, we built a very simple application that demonstrates how to combine together all these concepts. We also added to our belt a new chain of powerful tools and libraries, such as Webpack and React.

Even though we discussed a lot of topics, we barely scratched the surface of this wide topic, and you should have gained all the necessary knowledge to keep exploring this world on your own if you are interested in knowing more. Given this immaturity, tools and libraries will probably change a lot in the next few years, but all the...