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Node.js Web Development - Fourth Edition

By : David Herron
Book Image

Node.js Web Development - Fourth Edition

By: David Herron

Overview of this book

Node.js is a server-side JavaScript platform using an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model allowing users to build fast and scalable data-intensive applications running in real time. This book gives you an excellent starting point, bringing you straight to the heart of developing web applications with Node.js. You will progress from a rudimentary knowledge of JavaScript and server-side development to being able to create, maintain, deploy and test your own Node.js application.You will understand the importance of transitioning to functions that return Promise objects, and the difference between fs, fs/promises and fs-extra. With this book you'll learn how to use the HTTP Server and Client objects, data storage with both SQL and MongoDB databases, real-time applications with Socket.IO, mobile-first theming with Bootstrap, microservice deployment with Docker, authenticating against third-party services using OAuth, and use some well known tools to beef up security of Express 4.16 applications.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Creating the Notes application

Let's start creating the Notes application as before, by using the Express generator to give us a starting point:

$ mkdir notes
$ cd notes
$ npm install [email protected]
$ ./node_modules/.bin/express --view=hbs --git .
destination is not empty, continue? [y/N] y

create : .
create : ./package.json
create : ./app.js
create : ./.gitignore
create : ./public
create : ./routes
create : ./routes/index.js
create : ./routes/users.js
create : ./views
create : ./views/index.hbs
create : ./views/layout.hbs
create : ./views/error.hbs
create : ./bin
create : ./bin/www
create : ./public/stylesheets
create : ./public/stylesheets/style.css

install dependencies:
$ cd . && npm install

run the app:
$ DEBUG=notes:* npm start

create : ./public/javascripts
create : ./public/images
$ npm install
added 82 packages...