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Node Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Bethany Griggs
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Book Image

Node Cookbook - Fourth Edition

4 (1)
By: Bethany Griggs

Overview of this book

A key technology for building web applications and tooling, Node.js brings JavaScript to the server enabling full-stack development in a common language. This fourth edition of the Node Cookbook is updated with the latest Node.js features and the evolution of the Node.js framework ecosystems. This practical guide will help you to get started with creating, debugging, and deploying your Node.js applications and cover solutions to common problems, along with tips to avoid pitfalls. You'll become familiar with the Node.js development model by learning how to handle files and build simple web applications and then explore established and emerging Node.js web frameworks such as Express.js and Fastify. As you advance, you'll discover techniques for detecting problems in your applications, handling security concerns, and deploying your applications to the cloud. This recipe-based guide will help you to easily navigate through various core topics of server-side web application development with Node.js. By the end of this Node book, you'll be well-versed with core Node.js concepts and have gained the knowledge to start building performant and scalable Node.js applications.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Consuming a microservice

In this recipe, we'll create an Express.js web application that will consume the loopback-bookstore microservice created in the previous recipe, Generating a microservice with LoopBack. This will demonstrate how modern web architectures are implemented on the basis of the microservice pattern.

Getting ready

This recipe we will be consuming the microservice created in the Generating a microservice with LoopBack recipe. If you have not completed that recipe, you can obtain the code from the Packt GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Node.js-14-Cookbook in the Chapter11/loopback-bookstore directory.

We'll also be creating a frontend web application; we'll be using the Express.js generator to create a base for our web application. For more information on the Express.js generator, refer to the Building web applications with Express.js recipe in Chapter 6, Exploring Node.js Web Frameworks.

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