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Advanced Node.js Development

By : Andrew Mead

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Advanced Node.js Development

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By: Andrew Mead

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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.

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Getting Set Up

Installing MongoDB and Robomongo for Linux and macOS

Installing MongoDB and Robomongo for Windows

Summary

MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 1

Connecting to MongoDB and writing data

The ObjectId

Fetching data

Setting up the repo

Deleting documents

Updating data

Summary

MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 2

Setting up Mongoose

Validators, Types, and Defaults

Installing Postman

Resource Creation Endpoint - POST /todos

Testing POST /todos

List Resources - GET /todos

Testing GET /todos

Summary

MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 3

Mongoose queries and ID validation

Getting an individual resource – GET /todos/:id

Testing GET /todos/:id

Deploying the API to Heroku

Postman environments

Deleting a resource – DELETE /todos/:id

Testing DELETE /todos/:id

Updating a Resource - PATCH /todos/:id

Testing PATCH /todos/:id

Creating a Test database

Summary

Real-Time Web Apps with Socket.io

Creating a new web app project

Adding Socket.io to an app

Emitting and listening to custom events

Broadcasting events

Summary

Generating newMessage and newLocationMessage

Message generator and tests

Event acknowledgements

The message form and jQuery

Geolocation

Summary

Styling Our Chat Page as a Web App

Styling the chat page

Timestamps and formatting with Moment

Printing message timestamps

Mustache.js

Autoscrolling

Summary

The Join Page and Passing Room Data

Adding a join page

Passing room data

Socket.io rooms

Summary

ES7 classes

Storing users with ES6 classes – Part I

Wiring up user list

Sending messages to room only

New feature ideas

Summary

Async/Await Project Setup

Using async/await features in promises

Async/await basics

A real-world example

Handling errors and awaiting async function

Summary

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Handling errors and awaiting async function

We're going to kick this section off by converting both getExchangeRate and getCountries over to async functions. They're good candidates because we do have promises and we could just await those promises instead. Then we're going to talk about errors, how we can throw them and how we can customize errors that get thrown by other code. It's going to make it really useful and it'll make it a lot easier to actually use async/await in the real world where you do need to handle errors.