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Advanced Node.js Development

By : Andrew Mead
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Book Image

Advanced Node.js Development

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By: Andrew Mead

Overview of this book

Advanced Node.js Development is a practical, project-based book that provides you with all you need to progress as a Node.js developer. Node is a ubiquitous technology on the modern web, and an essential part of any web developer’s toolkit. If you're looking to create real-world Node applications, or you want to switch careers or launch a side-project to generate some extra income, then you're in the right place. This book was written around a single goal: turning you into a professional Node developer capable of developing, testing, and deploying real-world production applications. There's no better time to dive in. According to the 2018 Stack Overflow Survey, Node is in the top ten for back-end popularity and back-end salary. This book is built from the ground up around the latest version of Node.js (version 9.x.x). You'll be learning all the cutting-edge features available only in the latest software versions. This book delivers advanced skills that you need to become a professional Node developer. Along this journey you'll create your own API, you'll build a full real-time web app and create projects that apply the latest Async and Await technologies. Andrew Mead maps everything out for you in this book so that you can learn how to build powerful Node.js projects in a comprehensive, easy-to-follow package designed to get you up and running quickly.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you downloaded and ran the MongoDB database server. This means that we have a local database server we can connect to from our Node application. We also installed Robomongo, which lets us connect to our local database so that we can view and manipulate data. This comes in handy when you're debugging or managing data, or doing anything else with your Mongo database. We'll be using it throughout the book, and you'll begin to see why it's valuable in the later chapters. For now though, you are all set up. You are ready to continue on and start building the Todo API.