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Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

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Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

Overview of this book

Node.js is an open source, cross-platform runtime environment that allows you to use JavaScript to develop server-side web applications. This short guide will help you develop applications using JavaScript and Node.js, leverage your existing programming skills from .NET or Java, and make the most of these other platforms through understanding the Node.js programming model. You will learn how to build web applications and APIs in Node, discover packages in the Node.js ecosystem, test and deploy your Node.js code, and more. Finally, you will discover how to integrate Node.js and .NET code.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Node.js for .NET Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Creating Dynamic Websites

Now that we have established a basic structure for our application, we can start to add more functionality and build a dynamic website that responds to user input.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Adding a new module to our application for storing and deleting data

  • Exposing a JSON API to handle user-submitted data

  • Implementing communication between the client and server using Ajax

  • Building up more complex HTML views using partial templates