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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)

Callbacks in Asynchronous Programming

This chapter is the second part of our asynchronous programming in Node.js. In this chapter, we'll look at callbacks, HTTP requests, and more. We're going to handle a lot of the errors that happen inside callbacks. There's a lot of ways our request in app.js can go wrong, and we'll want to figure out how to recover from errors inside of our callback functions when we're doing asynchronous programming.

Next, we'll be moving our request code block into a separate file and abstracting a lot of details. We'll talk about what that means and why it's important for us. We'll be using Google's Geolocation API, and we'll be using the Dark Sky API to take location information like a zip code and turn that into real-world current weather information.

Then, we'll start wiring up that forecast...