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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)

Summary

In this chapter you learned about Express and how it can be used to easily create websites. We looked at how we can set up a static web server, so when we have an entire directory of JavaScript, images, CSS, and HTML. We can serve that up easily without needing to provide routes for everything. This will let us create all sorts of applications, which we'll be doing throughout the rest of the book.

Next, we continued on learning how to use Express. We took a look at how we can render dynamic templates, kind of like we would with a PHP or Ruby on Rails file. We have some variables and we rendered a template injecting those variables. Then we learned a little bit about handlebars partials, which let us create reusable chunks of code like headers and footers. We also learned about Handlebars helpers, which is a way to run some JavaScript code from inside of your handlebars...