Book Overview & Buying
Table Of Contents

Server Side development with Node.js and Koa.js Quick Start Guide

By : Olayinka Omole

4.5 (2)

Buy this Book

Server Side development with Node.js and Koa.js Quick Start Guide

4.5 (2)

By: Olayinka Omole

Buy this Book

Overview of this book

Every developer wants to build modular and scalable web applications. Modern versions of JavaScript have made this possible in Node.js, and Koa is a Node.js framework that makes it easy. This book is the ideal introduction for JavaScript developers who want to create scalable server side applications using Node.js and Koa.js. The book shows you how Koa can be used to start projects from scratch, register custom and existing middleware, read requests, and send responses to users. We will explore the core concepts in Koa, such as error handling, logging, and request and response handling. We will dive into new concepts in JavaScript development, and see how paradigms such as async/await help with modern Node.js application development. By the end of this book, you will be building robust web applications in Koa using modern development paradigms and techniques of Node.js development.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

To get the most out of this book

Get in touch

Free Chapter

Introducing Koa

Technical requirements

What is Koa?

What can you do with Koa?

Why choose Koa?

When you should not use Koa

Koa versus Express

How can this book help you understand Koa better?

Summary

Getting Started with Koa

Technical requirements

Modern JavaScript

A primer on Node

What is async... await?

Installing Koa

Using Babel

Starting a server in Koa

Summary

Koa Core Concepts

Technical requirements

The application object

The context object

Middleware

Summary

Handling Errors in Koa

Technical requirements

Catching errors in Koa

Throwing HTTP errors

Writing error handlers

Summary

Building an API in Koa

Technical requirements

Project setup

Building the application

Useful notes

Summary

Building an Application in Koa

Technical requirements

About the application

Setting up a project

Building the application

Summary

Other Books You May Enjoy

Leave a review - let other readers know what you think

About the application

Some of the features our application will have include the following:

Authentication to restrict access to some parts of the app
The ability for users to log in, register, and logout
Ability to serve HTML pages to users
Ability to CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) blog posts for signed-in users

If you haven't already, it is highly recommended to go through Chapter 5, Building an API in Koa. This will help provide more background information on some of the things we will do in this chapter.

All the code written in this chapter uses the modern JavaScript ES6 syntax.

At the end of this chapter, we will have built a simple blog from scratch in Koa, as seen in this screenshot: