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Mastering Node.js - Second Edition

By : Sandro Pasquali, Kevin Faaborg
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Mastering Node.js - Second Edition

By: Sandro Pasquali, Kevin Faaborg

Overview of this book

Node.js, a modern development environment that enables developers to write server- and client-side code with JavaScript, thus becoming a popular choice among developers. This book covers the features of Node that are especially helpful to developers creating highly concurrent real-time applications. It takes you on a tour of Node's innovative event non-blocking design, showing you how to build professional applications. This edition has been updated to cover the latest features of Node 9 and ES6. All code examples and demo applications have been completely rewritten using the latest techniques, introducing Promises, functional programming, async/await, and other cutting-edge patterns for writing JavaScript code. Learn how to use microservices to simplify the design and composition of distributed systems. From building serverless cloud functions to native C++ plugins, from chatbots to massively scalable SMS-driven applications, you'll be prepared for building the next generation of distributed software. By the end of this book, you'll be building better Node applications more quickly, with less code and more power, and know how to run them at scale in production environments.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

As we have learned, Node's designers have succeeded in creating a simple, predictable, and convenient solution to the challenging design problem of enabling efficient I/O between disparate sources and targets, while keeping code easy to manage. Its abstract Stream interface facilitates the instantiation of consistent readable and writable interfaces, and the extension of this interface into HTTP requests and responses, the filesystem, child processes, and other data channels makes stream programming with Node a pleasant experience.

Now that we've learned how to set up HTTP servers to handle streams of data arriving from many simultaneously connected clients, and how to feed those clients buffets of buffered streams, we can begin to engage more deeply with the task of building enterprise-grade concurrent real-time systems with Node.

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