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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

Creating the route for adding new keywords

Creating a new keyword results in a POST request to /api/keywords. Let's extend our spec accordingly:

For the sake of brevity, I'm only showing the additional it block instead of the whole spec file.
it('should create a new keyword when receiving a POST request at \
 /api/keywords/', function (done) {
    var expected = {
      "_items": [ 
        {'id': 1, 'value':  'Aubergine', 'categoryID': 1},
        {'id': 2, 'value': 'Onion', 'categoryID': 1}
      ] 
    };
    var body = {
      'value': 'Onion',
      'categoryID': 1
    };

    async.series(
      [

        function(callback) {
          dbSession.insert(
            'category',
            {'name': 'Vegetable'},
            function(err) ...