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Learning Node.js Development

By : Andrew Mead
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Learning Node.js Development

By: Andrew Mead

Overview of this book

Learning Node.js Development is a practical, project-based book that provides you with all you need to get started as a Node.js developer. Node is a ubiquitous technology on the modern web, and an essential part of any web developers' toolkit. If you are 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 has been written around a single goal—turning you into a professional Node developer capable of developing, testing, and deploying real-world production applications. Learning Node.js Development 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 cuts through the mass of information available around Node and delivers the essential skills that you need to become a Node developer. It takes you through creating complete apps and understanding how to build, deploy, and test your own Node apps. It maps out everything in a comprehensive, easy-to-follow package designed to get you up and running quickly.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Getting input

If a user wants to add a note, we need to know the note's title as well as the body of the note. If they want to fetch a note, we need to know the title of the note they want to fetch, and all this information needs to come into our app. And note apps, don't really do anything cool until they get this dynamic user input. This is what makes your scripts useful and awesome.

Now, throughout the book, we'll be creating note apps that get input from the user in a lot of different ways. We'll be using socket I/O to get real-time info from a web app, we'll be creating our own API so other websites and servers can make Ajax requests to our app, but in this section, we'll start things off with a very basic example of how to get user input.

We'll be getting input from the user inside the command line. That means when you run the app in the...