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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

  • 4.1 File concatenation: Write the implementation of concatFiles(), a callback-style function that takes two or more paths to text files in the filesystem and a destination file:
    function concatFiles (srcFile1, srcFile2, srcFile3, ... ,
                          dest, cb) {
      // ...
    }
    

    This function must copy the contents of every source file into the destination file, respecting the order of the files, as provided by the arguments list. For instance, given two files, if the first file contains foo and the second file contains bar, the function should write foobar (and not barfoo) in the destination file. Note that the preceding example signature is not valid JavaScript syntax: you need to find a different way to handle an arbitrary number of arguments. For instance, you could use the rest parameters syntax (nodejsdp.link/rest-parameters).

  • 4.2 List files recursively: Write listNestedFiles(), a callback-style function that takes, as the input...