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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)

Wiring up weather search

In this section, you'll make your very first request to the weather API, and we'll do this in a static way at first, meaning that it will not use the actual latitude and longitude for the address we passed in, we'll simply have a static URL. We'll make the request and we'll explore what data we get back in the body.

Exploring working of API in the browser

Now before we can add anything to Atom, we want to go ahead and explore this API so we can see how it works in the browser. This will give us a better idea about what weather data we get back, when we pass a latitude and longitude to the API. To do this we'll head over to the browser, and we'll visit a couple of...