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The Node Craftsman Book

By : Manuel Kiessling
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The Node Craftsman Book

By: Manuel Kiessling

Overview of this book

The Node Craftsman Book helps JavaScript programmers with basic Node.js knowledge to now thoroughly master Node.js and JavaScript. This book dives you deeper into the craft of software development with Node.js and JavaScript, incuding object-orientation, test-driven development, database handling, web frameworks, and much more. The Node Craftsman Book shows you how to work with Node.js and how to think deeply about how you build your Node projects. You'll master how to build a complete Node.js application across six crafting milestones, and you'll learn many specific skills to achieve that mastery. These skills include how to work with the Node Package Manager in depth, how to connect your Node applications to databases, and how to write unit tests and end-to-end tests for your code. You'll experience the full Node.js development picture, and learn how to craft and control your Node.js applications - right through to fully-fledged web applications using REST, and integration with Angular applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1: Node.js Basics in Detail
2
Working with NPM and Packages
3
Test-driven Node.js Development
11
Milestone 1 – A First Passing Test Against the Server
13
Milestone 3 – Setting the Stage for a Continuous Delivery Workflow

The requirements from a user's perspective

What we are going to build is an application which allows its users to comfortably manage a set of structured data from the world of food and cooking.

The data basically is a collection of keywords like Aubergine, Knife, or Paul Bocuse, and these keywords are mapped into categories, like Vegetable, Utility, or Famous chef.

What's needed now is an application where users can browse and edit this data: create new keywords, delete keywords, change the value of existing keywords, and change the category of keywords. Thus, at the heart of it we need a CRUD application, with a little bit of extra functionality.

It has already been decided that the users want a web-based solution. The data will be stored in a relational database.

This is how the user interface will look like:

What this depicts is a screen with a table of keywords and the categories they are mapped...