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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)

Callback errors

In this section we'll learn how to handle errors inside of your callback functions, because as you might guess things don't always go as planned. For example, the current version of our app has a few really big flaws, if I try to fetch weather using node app.js with the a flag for a zip that doesn't exist, like 000000, the program crashes, which is a really big problem. It's going off. It's fetching the data, eventually that data will come back and we get an error, as shown here:

It's trying to fetch properties that don't exist, such as body.results[0].formatted_address is not a real property, and this is a big problem.

Our current callback expects everything went as planned. It doesn't care about the error object, doesn't look at response codes; it just starts printing the data that it wants. This is the happy path...