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Node.js 6.x Blueprints

By : Fernando Monteiro
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Node.js 6.x Blueprints

By: Fernando Monteiro

Overview of this book

Node.js is the most popular framework to create server-side applications today. Be it web, desktop, or mobile, Node.js comes to your rescue to create stunning real-time applications. Node.js 6.x Blueprints will teach you to build these types of projects in an easy-to-understand manner. The key to any Node.js project is a strong foundation on the concepts that will be a part of every project. The book will first teach you the MVC design pattern while developing a Twitter-like application using Express.js. In the next chapters, you will learn to create a website and applications such as streaming, photography, and a store locator using MongoDB, MySQL, and Firebase. Once you’re warmed up, we’ll move on to more complex projects such as a consumer feedback app, a real-time chat app, and a blog using Node.js with frameworks such as loopback.io and socket.io. Finally, we’ll explore front-end build processes, Docker, and continuous delivery. By the end of book, you will be comfortable working with Node.js applications and will know the best tools and frameworks to build highly scalable desktop and cloud applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Node.js 6.x Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating the baseline application


Although we already used the Loopback framework, we strongly recommend that you install it again, to ensure that you will have the most up-to-date version on your machine:

 npm install -g loopback

In this example, we will not make many changes to the generated code, since our focus is to create building tasks, but we will use some interesting features of the Loopback framework using the command line:

  1. Open terminal/shell, and type the following command:

      slc loopback
    
  2. Name the application chapter-09.

  3. Choose empty-server (an empty LoopBack API, without any configured models or data source's) and press Enter.

Now we have created the application scaffold. Don't worry about the next commands suggested by the terminal output, as we will discuss these commands later in the book.

Tip

You can read more about Loopback CLI at this link: https://docs.strongloop.com/display/public/LB/Command-line+reference.

Adding a Datasource to the project

Before we create our models as we...