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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

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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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Contributors
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Set Up
Getting Set Up
Installing MongoDB and Robomongo for Linux and macOS
Installing MongoDB and Robomongo for Windows
Summary
2
MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 1
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
3
MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 2
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
4
MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 3
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
5
Real-Time Web Apps with Socket.io
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
6
Generating newMessage and newLocationMessage
Generating newMessage and newLocationMessage
Message generator and tests
Event acknowledgements
The message form and jQuery
Geolocation
Summary
7
Styling Our Chat Page as a Web App
Styling Our Chat Page as a Web App
Styling the chat page
Timestamps and formatting with Moment
Printing message timestamps
Mustache.js
Autoscrolling
Summary
8
The Join Page and Passing Room Data
The Join Page and Passing Room Data
Adding a join page
Passing room data
Socket.io rooms
Summary
9
ES7 classes
ES7 classes
Storing users with ES6 classes – Part I
Wiring up user list
Sending messages to room only
New feature ideas
Summary
10
Async/Await Project Setup
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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Index
Index

Deploying the API to Heroku

In this section, you're going to deploy the Todo API to Heroku so anybody with the URL can access these routes, adding and fetching Todo items. Now, before we can push it to Heroku, there are quite a few things we need to change, small tweaks to get it ready for the Heroku servers. One of the bigger tweaks is going to be to set up a real MongoDB database because currently we use a localhost database and this is not going to be available once we get our app on Heroku.

To kick things off we're going to move into the server file and set up the app variable to use the environment port variable that Heroku is going to set, which we did in the previous section when we deployed to Heroku. If you remember, what we did was we created a variable called port and we set that equal to process.env.PORT. This is the variable that may or may not be set; it's going to be set if the app is running on Heroku, but it won't be set if it's running locally. We can use our || (OR) syntax...

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