Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

Overview of this book

Node.js is an open source, cross-platform runtime environment that allows you to use JavaScript to develop server-side web applications. This short guide will help you develop applications using JavaScript and Node.js, leverage your existing programming skills from .NET or Java, and make the most of these other platforms through understanding the Node.js programming model. You will learn how to build web applications and APIs in Node, discover packages in the Node.js ecosystem, test and deploy your Node.js code, and more. Finally, you will discover how to integrate Node.js and .NET code.

Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

Free Chapter

Why Node.js?

What is Node.js?

Why JavaScript?

When to use Node.js

Summary

Getting Started with Node.js

Installing and running Node.js

Choosing an editor

Using an application framework

Summary

A JavaScript Primer

Introducing JavaScript types

Functional object-oriented programming

Summary

Introducing Node.js Modules

Organizing your codebase

Creating modules in Node.js

Defining a directory-level module

Implementing an Express middleware module

Summary

Creating Dynamic Websites

Handling user-submitted data

Communicating via Ajax

Implementing other data operations

Summary

Testing Node.js Applications

Writing a simple test in Node.js

Structuring the codebase for tests

Writing BDD-style tests with Mocha

Using Chai for assertions

Creating test doubles

Testing an Express application

Full-stack testing with PhantomJS

Summary

Setting up an Automated Build

Setting up an integration server

Automating the build process with Gulp

Checking code style with ESLint

Gathering code coverage statistics

Running integration tests from Gulp

Summary

Mastering Asynchronicity

Using the callback pattern for asynchronous code

Writing cleaner asynchronous code using promises

Combining asynchronous programming patterns

Summary

Persisting Data

Introducing MongoDB

Using MongoDB with Express

Introducing Redis

Building a user ranking system with Redis

A note on security

Summary

Creating Real-time Web Apps

Understanding options for real-time communication

Introducing Socket.IO

Scaling real-time Node.js applications

Integrating Socket.IO with Express

Directing Socket.IO messages

Testing Socket.IO applications

Organizing Socket.IO applications

Summary

Deploying Node.js Applications

Working with Heroku

Deploying from Travis CI

Further resources

Summary

Authentication in Node.js

Introducing Passport

Using Express sessions

Implementing social login

Allowing users to log out

Adding other login providers

Summary

Creating JavaScript Packages

Writing universal modules

Writing npm packages

Publishing a package to npm

Using Node.js modules in the browser

Summary

Node.js and Beyond

Understanding Node.js versioning

Understanding ECMAScript versioning

Exploring ECMAScript 2015

Introducing ECMAScript 2016

Going beyond JavaScript

JavaScript and ASP.NET

Summary

Index

Customer Reviews

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Choosing an editor

Of course, we're not going to write all of our code inside the REPL. You can use any text editor or IDE you like for writing JavaScript for Node.js. If you're not sure what to use, try one of the following:

Atom (https://atom.io/)
Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/)

These are both free, lightweight IDEs that are actually implemented in Node.js. They are both available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

The code listings in the rest of this book will be JavaScript source code files, not commands to be typed into the REPL.

Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

Overview of this book

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