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Learning Node.js for Mobile Application Development

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Learning Node.js for Mobile Application Development

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Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Node.js for Mobile Application Development
Learning Node.js for Mobile Application Development
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Setting Up Your Workspace
Setting Up Your Workspace
The Node.js backend
Installing Node.js on different systems
Setting up the Ionic framework and Cordova for Mac OS X
Setting up the Ionic framework and Cordova for Windows
Setting up Android Studio for Android, Mac, and Windows
Setting up the Android Software Development Kit
Setting up your physical Android device for development
Setting up the Environment Variables on Windows 7 and higher
Setting up the Environment Variables for iOS on Mac OS X
MongoDB
Summary
2
Configuring Persistence with MongoDB
Configuring Persistence with MongoDB
Learning outcomes of MongoDB
An introduction to MongoDB
Connecting to MongoDB
Creating a database
Creating our collections
Creating relations between documents
Querying MongoDB
Advanced queries
Connecting MongoDB and Node.js
Summary
3
Creating an API
Creating an API
Learning outcomes of the RESTful API
RESTing easy
It's all hypermedia
Building a RESTful API with Node.js
Implementing our GET handlers
Moving forward
Summary
4
Securing Your Backend
Securing Your Backend
Understanding the outcomes of token-based authentication
Adding the new collections
Adding an authentication module
Summary
5
Real-Time Data and WebSockets
Real-Time Data and WebSockets
Polling
WebSockets
Using WebSockets in Node.js
An alternate chat
The efficient serving of static files
Summary
6
Introducing Ionic
Introducing Ionic
Setting up your Ionic web account
Creating your first Ionic application
Checking out your Ionic applications with Ionic View
Going further
Summary
7
Building User Interfaces
Building User Interfaces
The structure of an Ionic project
Introducing AngularJS
Modifying an Ionic project
Adding a new tab
Going further
Summary
8
Making Our App Interactive
Making Our App Interactive
Creating a new project
Creating a basic MVC project
Accessing the device data
Building for native devices
The list view revisited
Summary
9
Accessing Native Phone Features
Accessing Native Phone Features
Creating the project
Angular directives
Putting it all together
Adding geolocation via GPS
Summary
10
Working with APIs
Working with APIs
Setting up Parse
Setting up the Ionic project
Connecting Parse to our project
Testing our application
Summary
11
Working with Security
Working with Security
An overview of client-side security
Building a secure app
Summary
12
Working with Real-Time Data
Working with Real-Time Data
A refresher – WebSockets
Getting the lay of the land
Creating the server
Building the chat app
Going further
Summary
13
Building an Advanced Chat App
Building an Advanced Chat App
We need some room!
Namespaces
Creating a multiroom chat application
Summary
14
Creating an E-Commerce Application Using the Ionic Framework
Creating an E-Commerce Application Using the Ionic Framework
Designing our application
Summary
Index
Index

The efficient serving of static files

To keep things brief, and also to get our feet wet when it comes to using the HTTP module, we served a static HTML file directly from Node.js in our example. In a production system, static files are usually much more efficient as regards serving from a standard file server such as Apache or Nginx.

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