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Node.js By Example

Node.js By Example

By : Krasimir Tsonev
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Node.js By Example

Node.js By Example

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

Chapter 4. Developing the Model-View-Controller Layers

In the previous chapter, we learned how to prepare the assets needed by our application. It is time to move forward and start writing the base levels of our social network. In this chapter, we will use the Model-View-Controller pattern and prepare our code base to implement the future of our application. Here is what we will talk about in this chapter:

  • Transforming the code from the previous chapter to a better file structure
  • Implementing a router that works in both backend and frontend environments
  • Briefly introducing Ractive.js—a framework that we will use in the client-side part of the project
  • Developing the main file of the application
  • Implementing controller, view, and model classes
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