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Advanced Node.js Development

By : Andrew Mead
Book Image

Advanced Node.js Development

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

Summary


In this chapter, we worked on generating text and location messages. We looked into generating the newMessage object and then writing a test case for it. Then, we learned about how to use event acknowledgments. Then we added the message form field and rendered an input field and a button to the screen. We also discussed the concept of jQuery and used that to select and create incoming message elements.

In the geoloaction section, we gave a new button to the user. This new button allow the users to send their location. We set up a click listener for that Send Location button, which means every time a user clicks it, we do something as per their access to geoloaction API. If they do not have access to the geolocation API, we simply print a message. If they do have access we try to fetch the location.

In the next chapter, we'll look into styling our chat page and make it look more like a real web app.