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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)

Weather app with promises

In this section, we'll learn how to use a library that has promises built in. We'll explore the axios library, which is really similar to request. Although, instead of using callbacks as request does, it uses promises. So we don't have to wrap our calls in promises to get that promise functionality. We'll actually be recreating the entire weather app in this section. We'll only have to write about 25 lines of code. We'll go through the entire process: taking the address, getting the coordinates, and then fetching the weather.

Fetching weather app code from the app.js file

To fetch weather app code from the app.js file, we'll duplicate app.js, because we configure...