Node.js Blueprints

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Node.js Blueprints

By : Krasimir Stefanov Tsonev

Book Image

Node.js Blueprints

By: Krasimir Stefanov Tsonev

Overview of this book

Node.js Blueprints

Node.js Blueprints

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

Free Chapter

Common Programming Paradigms

Common Programming Paradigms

Node.js fundamentals

Organizing your code logic in modules

Understanding inter-module communication

Asynchronous programming

Exploring middleware architecture

Composition versus inheritance

Managing dependencies

Developing a Basic Site with Node.js and Express

Developing a Basic Site with Node.js and Express

Getting acquainted with Express

Installing Express

Managing routes

Handling dynamic URLs and the HTML forms

Returning a response

The example-logging system

Writing a Blog Application with Node.js and AngularJS

Writing a Blog Application with Node.js and AngularJS

Exploring AngularJS

Selecting and initializing the database

Developing the client side with Angular

Implementing a control panel

Developing a Chat with Socket.IO

Developing a Chat with Socket.IO

Exploring WebSockets and Socket.IO

Understanding the basic application structure

Running the server

Adding Socket.IO

Writing the client side of the chat

Implementing user-to-user communication

Creating a To-do Application with Backbone.js

Creating a To-do Application with Backbone.js

Exploring the Backbone.js framework

Writing the backend of the application

Writing the frontend

Using Node.js as a Command-line Tool

Using Node.js as a Command-line Tool

Exploring the required modules

Planning the application

Obtaining images from a folder

Authorizing the Flickr protocol

Uploading the images

Showing a Social Feed with Ember.js

Showing a Social Feed with Ember.js

Preparing the application

Running the server and delivering the assets

Getting tweets based on a user handle

Discovering Ember.js

Understanding Ember.js

Writing Ember.js

Defining the routes

Handling the user input and moving to the second screen

Displaying the tweets

Developing Web App Workflow with Grunt and Gulp

Developing Web App Workflow with Grunt and Gulp

Introducing the task runners

Exploring Grunt

Discovering Gulp

Automate Your Testing with Node.js

Automate Your Testing with Node.js

Understanding the importance of writing tests

Choosing a testing methodology

Classifying tests

Testing with Mocha

Testing with a headless browser

Testing with DalekJS

Writing Flexible and Modular CSS

Writing Flexible and Modular CSS

Writing modular CSS

Exploring CSS preprocessors

Styling a simple login form

Writing a REST API

Writing a REST API

Discovering REST and API

Developing an online library – a REST API

Working with the database

Testing the API

Developing Desktop Apps with Node.js

Developing Desktop Apps with Node.js

Using node-webkit

Writing the base of the application

Displaying and using the working directory

Extending the application

Index

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Chapter 10. Writing Flexible and Modular CSS

In the previous chapter, we learned about the most popular testing instruments under Node.js. We saw the importance of writing tests and learned about TDD and BDD. This chapter will be about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and the usage of preprocessors. The Web is built on the basis of three languages—HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. As part of modern technology, Node.js provides really helpful instruments to write CSS; in this chapter, we will have a look at these instruments and how they can improve our style sheets. This chapter will cover the following topics:

Popular techniques to write modular CSS
The Less preprocessor
The Stylus preprocessor
The Sass preprocessor
The AbsurdJS preprocessor