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Node.js By Example

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Node.js By Example

Overview of this book

If you are a JavaScript developer with no experience with Node.js or server-side web development, this book is for you. It will lead you through creating a fairly complex social network. You will learn how to work with a database and create real-time communication channels.

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Node.js By Example
May, 2015 | 220 pages
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Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1. Node.js Fundamentals
1. Node.js Fundamentals
Understanding the Node.js architecture
Installing Node.js
Defining and using modules
Managing and distributing packages
Introducing built-in modules
Summary
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2. Architecting the Project
2. Architecting the Project
Introducing the basic layers of the application
The task runner and building system
Discovering Gulp
Test-driven development
The Model-View-Controller pattern
Introducing the REST API concept
Summary
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3. Managing Assets
3. Managing Assets
Serving files with Node.js
CSS preprocessing
Packing client-side JavaScript
Delivering HTML templates
Summary
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4. Developing the Model-View-Controller Layers
4. Developing the Model-View-Controller Layers
Evolving the current setup
Implementing the router
Introducing Ractive.js
Constructing the entry point of the application
Defining a controller
Managing our views
Creating a model
Summary
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5. Managing Users
5. Managing Users
Working with the MongoDB database
Extending the code from the previous chapter
Registering a new user
User authentication with sessions
Managing a user's profile
Summary
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6. Adding Friendship Capabilities
6. Adding Friendship Capabilities
Finding friends
Marking users as friends
Displaying the linked users on the Profile page
Summary
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7. Posting Content
7. Posting Content
Posting and storing text
Showing the user's feed
Posting files
Summary
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8. Creating Pages and Events
8. Creating Pages and Events
Refactoring the API
Adding a form to create pages
Creating a record in the database
Showing the currently added pages
Showing a specific page
Posting a comment to a page
Showing the comments
Managing events attached to a particular page
Summary
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9. Tagging, Sharing, and Liking
9. Tagging, Sharing, and Liking
Selecting friends and sending their IDs to the backend
Storing the tagged users and displaying them in the user's feed
Liking posts and counting the number of likes
Showing the number of likes
Summary
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10. Adding Real-time Chat
10. Adding Real-time Chat
Getting to know WebSockets
Bringing Socket.IO to the project
Preparing the UI of the chat area
Exchanging messages between the client and the server
Sending messages to the user's friends only
Customizing the output of the chat
Summary
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11. Testing the User Interface
11. Testing the User Interface
Introducing the basic testing toolset
Preparing our project to run tests
Running our test with PhantomJS
Testing user registration
Testing with DalekJS
Summary
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Index
Index

Chapter 1. Node.js Fundamentals

Node.js is one of the most popular JavaScript-driven technologies nowadays. It was created in 2009 by Ryan Dahl and since then, the framework has evolved into a well-developed ecosystem. Its package manager is full of useful modules and developers around the world have started using Node.js in their production environments. In this chapter, we will learn about the following:

  • Node.js building blocks
  • The main capabilities of the environment
  • The package management of Node.js
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