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Learning Node.js Development

Learning Node.js Development

By : Andrew Mead
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Learning Node.js Development

Learning Node.js Development

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By: Andrew Mead

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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.
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In this chapter, we learned about how to set up yargs for the weather-app file and how to include user input in it. Next, we looked into how to handle errors inside of our callback functions and how to recover from those errors. We simply added else/if statements inside of the callback function. Callbacks are just one function, so in order to figure out if things went well or if things didn't go well, we have to use else/if statements, this lets us do different things, such as print different messages, depending on whether or not we perceive the request to have gone well. Then, we made our first request to the weather API, and we looked into a way to fetch the weather based off of the latitude-longitude combination.

Last, we looked in chaining the geocodeAddress and getWeather call functions. We took that request call that was originally in app.js, and we moved it...

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