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Node Cookbook

By : David Mark Clements
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Node Cookbook

By: David Mark Clements

Overview of this book

The principles of asynchronous event-driven programming are perfect for today's web, where efficient real-time applications and scalability are at the forefront. Server-side JavaScript has been here since the 90's but Node got it right. With a thriving community and interest from Internet giants, it could be the PHP of tomorrow. "Node Cookbook" shows you how to transfer your JavaScript skills to server side programming. With simple examples and supporting code, "Node Cookbook" talks you through various server side scenarios often saving you time, effort, and trouble by demonstrating best practices and showing you how to avoid security faux pas. Beginning with making your own web server, the practical recipes in this cookbook are designed to smoothly progress you to making full web applications, command line applications, and Node modules. Node Cookbook takes you through interfacing with various database backends such as MySQL, MongoDB and Redis, working with web sockets, and interfacing with network protocols, such as SMTP. Additionally, there are recipes on correctly performing heavy computations, security implementations, writing, your own Node modules and different ways to take your apps live.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Node Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Implementing download throttling


For incoming streams, Node provides pause and resume methods, but not so for outbound streams. Essentially, this means we can easily throttle upload speeds in Node but download throttling requires a more creative solution.

Getting ready

We'll need a new server.js along with a good-sized file to serve. With the dd command-line program, we can generate a file for testing purposes.

dd if=/dev/zero of=50meg count=50 bs=1048576

This will create a 50 MB file named 50meg which we'll be serving.

Note

For a similar Windows tool that can be used to generate a large file, check out http://www.bertel.de/software/rdfc/index-en.html.

How to do it...

To keep things as simple as possible our download server will serve just one file, but we'll implement it in a way which would allow us to easily plug in some router code to serve multiple files. First, we will require our modules and set up an options object for file and speed settings.

var http = require('http');
var fs = require...