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The Node Craftsman Book

By : Manuel Kiessling
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The Node Craftsman Book

By: Manuel Kiessling

Overview of this book

The Node Craftsman Book helps JavaScript programmers with basic Node.js knowledge to now thoroughly master Node.js and JavaScript. This book dives you deeper into the craft of software development with Node.js and JavaScript, incuding object-orientation, test-driven development, database handling, web frameworks, and much more. The Node Craftsman Book shows you how to work with Node.js and how to think deeply about how you build your Node projects. You'll master how to build a complete Node.js application across six crafting milestones, and you'll learn many specific skills to achieve that mastery. These skills include how to work with the Node Package Manager in depth, how to connect your Node applications to databases, and how to write unit tests and end-to-end tests for your code. You'll experience the full Node.js development picture, and learn how to craft and control your Node.js applications - right through to fully-fledged web applications using REST, and integration with Angular applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1: Node.js Basics in Detail
2
Working with NPM and Packages
3
Test-driven Node.js Development
11
Milestone 1 – A First Passing Test Against the Server
13
Milestone 3 – Setting the Stage for a Continuous Delivery Workflow

Completing the first spec

We now have the boilerplate code and database structures needed to further complete our spec:

'use strict';
var request = require('request');
var dbSession = require('../../src/backend/dbSession.js');
var resetDatabase = require('../resetDatabase.js');
var async = require('async');

describe('The API', function () {

  it('should respond to a GET request at /api/keywords/', function 
  (done) {
    var expected = {
      "_items": [
        {'id': 1, 'value': 'Aubergine', 'categoryID': 1},
        {'id': 2, 'value': 'Onion', 'categoryID': 1},
        {'id': 3, 'value': 'Knife', 'categoryID': 2}
      ]
    };

    async.series(
      [

         function(callback) {
           resetDatabase...