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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)

yargs

In this section, we will use yargs, a third-party npm module, to make the process of parsing much easier. It will let us access things such as title and body information without needing to write a manual parser. This is a great example of when you should look for an npm module. If we don't use a module, it would be more productive for our Node application to use a third-party module that has been tested and thoroughly vetted.

To get started, we'll install the module, then we'll add it into the project, parsing for things such as a title of the body, and we'll call all the functions that will get defined over in notes.js. If the command is add, we'll call add note, so on.

Installing yargs

Now...