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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 (19 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Storing notes in the filesystem


The filesystem is an often overlooked database engine. While filesystems don't have the sort of query features supported by database engines, they are a reliable place to store files. The notes schema is simple enough that the filesystem can easily serve as its data storage layer.

Let's start by adding a function to Note.mjs:

exportdefaultclassNote {
   ...
   get JSON() { 
      return JSON.stringify({ 
        key: this.key, title: this.title, body: this.body 
      }); 
   }

   static fromJSON(json) { 
       var data = JSON.parse(json); 
       var note = new Note(data.key, data.title, data.body); 
       return note; 
   } 
}

JSON is a getter, which means it gets the value of the object. In this case, the note.JSON attribute/getter, no parentheses, will simply give us the JSON representation of the Note. We'll use this later for writing to JSON files.

fromJSON is a static function, or factory method, to aid in constructing Note objects if we have a JSON...