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Node.js By Example

By : Krasimir Tsonev
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Node.js By Example

By: Krasimir Tsonev

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.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
12
Index

Summary

Socket.IO is one of the most popular Node.js tools used to develop real-time applications. In this chapter, we successfully used it to build an interactive chat. The users in our network were able to not only post content that appeared in their feeds but also exchange messages with other users in real time. The WebSockets technology made this possible.

The next chapter is dedicated to testing. We will learn about a few popular modules that will help us write tests.