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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)

Arrow functions

In this section, you're going to learn the ins and outs of the arrow function. It's an ES6 feature, and we have taken a little look at it. Inside notes.js we used it in a few basic examples to create methods such as fetchNotes and saveNotes, and we also passed it into a few array methods like filter, and for each array, we used it as the callback function that gets called once for every item in the array.

Now if you try to swap out all of the functions in a program with arrow functions, it's most likely not going to work as expected because there are some differences between the two, and it's really important to know what those differences are, so you can make the decision to use a regular ES5 function or an ES6 arrow function.

Using the arrow function...