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Node.js Web Development - Fourth Edition

By : David Herron
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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

Express and the MVC paradigm


Express doesn't enforce an opinion on how you should structure the Model, View, and Controller modules of your application, or whether you should follow any kind of MVC paradigm at all. As we learned in the previous chapter, the blank application created by the Express Generator provides two aspects of the MVC model:

  • The views directory contains template files, controlling the display portion, corresponding to the View.
  • The routes directory contains code implementing the URLs recognized by the application and coordinating the response to each URL. This corresponds to the controller.

This leaves you wondering where to put code corresponding to the model. Models hold the application data, changing it as instructed by the controller and supplying data requested by View code. At a minimum, the Model code should be in separate modules from the Controller code. This is to ensure a clean separation of concerns, for example, to ease the unit testing of each.

The approach...