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Node Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Bethany Griggs
4 (1)
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)

Technical requirements

Throughout this chapter, we will use Docker to provision databases in containers. Using a database container is common when building scalable and resilient architectures – particularly when using a container orchestrator such as Kubernetes.

However, the main reason why we'll be using Docker containers throughout this chapter is to save us having to manually install each of the database command-line interfaces and servers onto our system. In this chapter, we will be using Docker to provision containerized MySQL 5, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis data stores.

It is recommended to install Docker for Desktop from https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/.

If you are unable to install Docker, then you can still complete the recipes, but you will need to manually install the specific databases for each recipe or connect to a remote database service.

Note that this chapter will not cover how to enable persistent data storage from Docker containers...