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Advanced Node.js Development

By : Andrew Mead
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Book Image

Advanced Node.js Development

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By: Andrew Mead

Overview of this book

Advanced Node.js Development is a practical, project-based book that provides you with all you need to progress as a Node.js developer. Node is a ubiquitous technology on the modern web, and an essential part of any web developer’s toolkit. If you're looking to create real-world Node applications, or you want to switch careers or launch a side-project to generate some extra income, then you're in the right place. This book was written around a single goal: turning you into a professional Node developer capable of developing, testing, and deploying real-world production applications. There's no better time to dive in. According to the 2018 Stack Overflow Survey, Node is in the top ten for back-end popularity and back-end salary. This book is built from the ground up around the latest version of Node.js (version 9.x.x). You'll be learning all the cutting-edge features available only in the latest software versions. This book delivers advanced skills that you need to become a professional Node developer. Along this journey you'll create your own API, you'll build a full real-time web app and create projects that apply the latest Async and Await technologies. Andrew Mead maps everything out for you in this book so that you can learn how to build powerful Node.js projects in a comprehensive, easy-to-follow package designed to get you up and running quickly.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Message generator and tests


In this section you are going to break out some functionality currently in server.js into a separate file, and we're also going to set up our test suite so that we can verify if those utility functions are working as expected.

For the moment, our goal is going to be to create a function that helps us generate the newMessage object. Instead of having to define the object every single time, we'll simply pass in two arguments to a function, the name and the text, and it'll generate the object so we don't have to do that work.

Generating the newMessage object using the utility function

To generate newMessage, we are going to make a separate file that we load into server.js with a method we call instead of defining the object. Inside the server folder, we'll make a new directory called utils.

Inside utils we'll make a file called message.js. This will store our utility functions related to messaging, and in our case, we'll make a new one called generateMessage. Let's make...