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Node.js Web Development - Fifth Edition

By : David Herron
Book Image

Node.js Web Development - Fifth Edition

By: David Herron

Overview of this book

Node.js is the leading choice of server-side web development platform, enabling developers to use the same tools and paradigms for both server-side and client-side software. This updated fifth edition of Node.js Web Development focuses on the new features of Node.js 14, Express 4.x, and ECMAScript, taking you through modern concepts, techniques, and best practices for using Node.js. The book starts by helping you get to grips with the concepts of building server-side web apps with Node.js. You’ll learn how to develop a complete Node.js web app, with a backend database tier to help you explore several databases. You'll deploy the app to real web servers, including a cloud hosting platform built on AWS EC2 using Terraform and Docker Swarm, while integrating other tools such as Redis and NGINX. As you advance, you'll learn about unit and functional testing, along with deploying test infrastructure using Docker. Finally, you'll discover how to harden Node.js app security, use Let's Encrypt to provision the HTTPS service, and implement several forms of app security with the help of expert practices. With each chapter, the book will help you put your knowledge into practice throughout the entire life cycle of developing a web app. By the end of this Node.js book, you’ll have gained practical Node.js web development knowledge and be able to build and deploy your own apps on a public web hosting solution.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Node.js
6
Section 2: Developing the Express Application
12
Section 3: Deployment

Managing multiple containers with Docker Compose

It is cool that we can create encapsulated instantiations of the software services that we've created. In theory, we can publish these images to Docker repositories, and then launch the containers on any server we want. For example, our task in Chapter 10, Deploying Node.js Applications to Linux Servers, would be greatly simplified with Docker. We could simply install Docker Engine on the Linux host and then deploy our containers on that server, and not have to deal with all those scripts and the PM2 application.

But we haven't properly automated the process. The promise was to use the Dockerized application for deployment on cloud services. In other words, we need to take all this learning and apply it to the task of simplifying deployment.

We've demonstrated that, with Docker, Notes can be built using four containers that have a high degree of isolation from each other and from the outside world.

There is a glaring problem...