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Node.js Design Patterns - Third Edition

By : Mario Casciaro, Luciano Mammino
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Book Image

Node.js Design Patterns - Third Edition

5 (1)
By: Mario Casciaro, Luciano Mammino

Overview of this book

In this book, we will show you how to implement a series of best practices and design patterns to help you create efficient and robust Node.js applications with ease. We kick off by exploring the basics of Node.js, analyzing its asynchronous event driven architecture and its fundamental design patterns. We then show you how to build asynchronous control flow patterns with callbacks, promises and async/await. Next, we dive into Node.js streams, unveiling their power and showing you how to use them at their full capacity. Following streams is an analysis of different creational, structural, and behavioral design patterns that take full advantage of JavaScript and Node.js. Lastly, the book dives into more advanced concepts such as Universal JavaScript, scalability and messaging patterns to help you build enterprise-grade distributed applications. Throughout the book, you’ll see Node.js in action with the help of several real-life examples leveraging technologies such as LevelDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, and many others. They will be used to demonstrate a pattern or technique, but they will also give you a great introduction to the Node.js ecosystem and its set of solutions.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Exercises

  • 10.1 A matter of style: Our little library application looks very barebone. It could look a lot better with some style and images. Why don't you try to improve the look of the app? If you get stuck or need some inspiration, you can check our version of this exercise on GitHub (nodejsdp.link/univ).
  • 10.2 Proper data management: As we said, keeping a lot of data in a file is not a great idea. Why don't you try to move all the data into a real database backend of your choice? At this point, you might also want to take this application to the next level and write some script to import data from a big collection of books like the Open Library archive (nodejsdp.link/open-libary-api).
  • 10.3 Pagination and search: Now that you have a more significant database, it's probably time to add some important features like search and pagination.
  • 10.4 A Universal… Blog!: Build a new universal JavaScript app from scratch that implements a blog....