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Learning Node.js Development

By : Andrew Mead
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Learning Node.js Development

By: Andrew Mead

Overview of this book

Learning Node.js Development is a practical, project-based book that provides you with all you need to get started as a Node.js developer. Node is a ubiquitous technology on the modern web, and an essential part of any web developers' toolkit. If you are 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 has been written around a single goal—turning you into a professional Node developer capable of developing, testing, and deploying real-world production applications. Learning Node.js Development 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 cuts through the mass of information available around Node and delivers the essential skills that you need to become a Node developer. It takes you through creating complete apps and understanding how to build, deploy, and test your own Node apps. It maps out everything in a comprehensive, easy-to-follow package designed to get you up and running quickly.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we have gone through a basic example of asynchronous programming. Next, we talked about what happens behind the scenes when you run asynchronous code. We got a really good idea about how your program runs and what tools and tricks are happening behind the scenes to make it run the way it does. We through a few examples that illustrate how the Call Stack, Node APIs, the Callback Queue, and the Event Loop work.

Then, we learned how to use the request module to make an HTTP request for some information, the URL we requested was a Google Maps Geocoding URL, and we passed in the address we want the latitude and the longitude for. Then we used a callback function that got fired once that data came back.

At the end of the section Callback functions and APIs, we looked into a quick tip on how we can format objects when we want to print them to the console. Last...