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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)

The static server

In this section, we'll learn how to set up a static directory. So if we have a website with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images, we can serve that up without needing to provide a custom route for every single file, which would be a real burden. Now setting this up is really simple. But before we make any updates to server.js, we'd create some static assets inside of our project that we can actually serve up.

Making an HTML page

In this case we'll make one HTML page that we'll be able to view in the browser. Before we get started, we do need to create a new directory, and everything inside this directory will be accessible via the web server, so it's important to not put anything in...