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Node.js Blueprints

By : Krasimir Stefanov Tsonev
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Node.js Blueprints

By: Krasimir Stefanov Tsonev

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Node.js Blueprints
Krasimir Stefanov Tsonev
Jun, 2014 | 268 pages
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Node.js Blueprints
Node.js Blueprints
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
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
Summary
2
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
Summary
3
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
Summary
4
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
Summary
5
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
Summary
6
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
Summary
7
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
Summary
8
Developing Web App Workflow with Grunt and Gulp
Developing Web App Workflow with Grunt and Gulp
Introducing the task runners
Exploring Grunt
Discovering Gulp
Summary
9
Automate Your Testing with Node.js
Automate Your Testing with Node.js
Understanding the importance of writing tests
Choosing a testing methodology
Classifying tests
Using Jasmine
Testing with Mocha
Testing with a headless browser
Testing with DalekJS
Summary
10
Writing Flexible and Modular CSS
Writing Flexible and Modular CSS
Writing modular CSS
Exploring CSS preprocessors
Styling a simple login form
Summary
11
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
Summary
12
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
Summary
Index
Index

Chapter 8. Developing Web App Workflow with Grunt and Gulp

In the last few chapters, we learned how to use Node.js together with the most popular client-side JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS and Ember.js. We learned how to run a fully functional web server and build a command-line tool.

In this chapter, we will explore the world of the task runners. Grunt and Gulp are two modules widely used and they have a solid collection of plugins.

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