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JavaScript and JSON Essentials - Second Edition

By : Bruno Joseph D'mello, Sai S Sriparasa
Book Image

JavaScript and JSON Essentials - Second Edition

By: Bruno Joseph D'mello, Sai S Sriparasa

Overview of this book

JSON is an established and standard format used to exchange data. This book shows how JSON plays different roles in full web development through examples. By the end of this book, you'll have a new perspective on providing solutions for your applications and handling their complexities. After establishing a strong basic foundation with JSON, you'll learn to build frontend apps by creating a carousel. Next, you'll learn to implement JSON with Angular 5, Node.js, template embedding, and composer.json in PHP. This book will also help you implement Hapi.js (known for its JSON-configurable architecture) for server-side scripting. You'll learn to implement JSON for real-time apps using Kafka, as well as how to implement JSON for a task runner, and for MongoDB BSON storage. The book ends with some case studies on JSON formats to help you sharpen your creativity by exploring futuristic JSON implementations. By the end of the book, you'll be up and running with all the essential features of JSON and JavaScript and able to build fast, scalable, and efficient web applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Inserting a JSON document


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Let us continue with our test-node-app and implement a POST API call that sets the customer's data in the collection.

The stepwise procedure is as follows:

  1.  By now, we have the mongoDb connection instance inside the app.js file. So first we need to remove the following code from app.js. Keep the code in some temp file as we are going to use it later:
      const MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;
      MongoClient.connect(constants.mongodb.url)
          .then(function() {
             console.log("Connected successfully to mongodb server")
          })
         .catch(function(err) {
         console.log("An error occurred while connecting to mongodb!", err)
          })
  1.  We are going to create a new piece of middleware that will use the existing DB connection to make a query to the particular...