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Node.js Web Development - Fourth Edition

By : David Herron
Book Image

Node.js Web Development - Fourth Edition

By: David Herron

Overview of this book

Node.js is a server-side JavaScript platform using an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model allowing users to build fast and scalable data-intensive applications running in real time. This book gives you an excellent starting point, bringing you straight to the heart of developing web applications with Node.js. You will progress from a rudimentary knowledge of JavaScript and server-side development to being able to create, maintain, deploy and test your own Node.js application.You will understand the importance of transitioning to functions that return Promise objects, and the difference between fs, fs/promises and fs-extra. With this book you'll learn how to use the HTTP Server and Client objects, data storage with both SQL and MongoDB databases, real-time applications with Socket.IO, mobile-first theming with Bootstrap, microservice deployment with Docker, authenticating against third-party services using OAuth, and use some well known tools to beef up security of Express 4.16 applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Editors and debuggers


Since Node.js code is JavaScript, any JavaScript-aware editor will be useful. Unlike some other languages that are so complex that an IDE with code completion is a necessity, a simple programming editor is perfectly sufficient for Node.js development.

Two editors are worth calling out because they are written in Node.js: Atom and Microsoft Visual Studio Code. 

Atom (https://atom.io/) bills itself as a hackable editor for the 21st century. It is extendable by writing Node.js modules using the Atom API, and the configuration files are easily editable. In other words, it's hackable in the same way plenty of other editors have been, going back to Emacs, meaning one writes a software module to add capabilities to the editor. The Electron framework was invented in order to build Atom, and Electron is a super easy way to build desktop applications using Node.js.

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/) is also a hackable editor—well, the home page says extensible...