Welcome to Advanced Node.js Development. This book is packed with a ton of content, projects, challenges, and real-world examples, all designed to teach you Node by doing. This means you'll be getting your hands dirty early on in the upcoming chapters writing some code, and you'll be writing code for every project. You will be writing every line of code that powers our applications. Now, we would require a text editor for this book.
All the projects in the book are fun to build and they were designed to teach you everything required to launch your own Node app, from planning to development and testing to deploying. Now, as you launch these different Node applications and move through the book, you will run into errors, which is bound to happen. Maybe something doesn't get installed as expected, or maybe you try to run an app and instead of getting the expected output, you get a really long obscure error message. Don't worry, I am there to help. I'll show you tips and tricks to get pass through those errors in the chapters. Let's go ahead and get to it.
This book targets anyone looking to launch their own Node applications, switch careers, or freelance as a Node developer. You should have a basic understanding of JavaScript in order to follow this book.
Chapter 1, Getting Set Up, will be a very basic setup for your local environments. We'll learn to install MongoDB and Robomongo.
Chapter 2, MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 1, will help you learn how to connect your Node applications to the MongoDB database you've been running on your local machine.
Chapter 3, MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 2, will help you start playing with Mongoose and connect to our MongoDB database.
Chapter 4, MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 3, will resolve queries and ID validation after playing with Mongoose.
Chapter 5, Real-Time Web Apps with Socket.io, will help you learn in detail about Socket.io and WebSockets, help you and create real-time web applications.
Chapter 6, Generating newMessage and newLocationMessage, discusses how to generate text and gelocation messages.
Chapter 7, Styling Our Chat Page as a Web App, continues our discussion on styling our chat page and make it look more like a real web application.
Chapter 8, The Join Page and Passing Room Data, continues our discussion about the chat page and look into the join page and passing room data.
Chapter 9, ES7 classes, will help you learn the ES6 class syntax and using it creating user's class and some other methods.
Chapter 10, Async/Await Project Setup, will walk you through the process of learning how async/await works.
To run the projects in this book, you will need the following:
- The latest version of Node.js (9.x.x at the time of writing this book)
- Express
- MongoDB
- Mongoose
- Atom
We'll see the rest of the requirements along the course of the book.
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