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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)

Debugging

In this section, we're going to use the built-in debugger, which can look a little complex because it's run inside of the command line. That means that you have to use the command-line interface, which is not always the most pleasant thing to look at. In the next section, though, we are going to be installing a third-party tool that uses Chrome DevTools in order to debug your Node app. That one looks great because the Chrome DevTools are fantastic.

Executing a program in debug mode

Before going ahead, we will learn that we do need to create a place to play around with debugging and that's going to happen in a playground file, since the code we're going to write is not going to be important to...