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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

Mustache.js


Now that we have our timestamps rendering correctly to the screen. We're going to go ahead and talk about a templating engine called Mustache.js. This is going to make it much easier to define some markup and render it multiple times. In our case, our messages are going to have the same set of elements in order to render properly. We're going to have a header tag for the user's name, we're going to add the text into a paragraph, all that sort of stuff.

Now instead of doing that inside index.js, like we currently are, we're going to create some templates, some markup in index.html, and we're going to render those, which means we're not going to need to manually create and manipulate these elements. This can be a huge burden.

Adding mustache.js to the directory

Now in order to get started before we actually create any templates or render them, we do need to download the library. We can get this by going to Google Chrome and Googling mustache.js, and we're looking for the GitHub repository...