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

By : Olayinka Omole
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Server Side development with Node.js and Koa.js Quick Start Guide

By: Olayinka Omole

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.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Setting up a project

As usual, we will begin development locally by initializing a project with npm. We can run the following command to initialize our project:

npm init
// or npm init -y

Running npm init -y initializes the project with default values in the package.json file.

Installing dependencies

We will be making use of the external dependencies listed here:

  • koa: Our base framework.
  • koa-router: RESTful Routing middleware for Koa
  • koa-logger: Development style logger middleware for Koa
  • koa-body: Request body parser middleware for Koa
  • koa-session: Session middleware for Koa
  • koa-views: Template rendering middleware for Koa
  • mongoose: Object data modeling (ODM) library for MongoDB and Node.js
  • mongoose-unique-validator: Unique...