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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

Summary


You've covered a lot of ground in this chapter, looking at not only user authentication in Express applications, but also microservice development.

Specifically, you covered session management in Express, using Passport for user authentication, including Twitter/OAuth, using router middleware to limit access, creating a REST service with Restify, and when to create a microservice.

In the next chapter, we'll take the Notes application to a new level-semi-real-time communication between application users. To do this, we'll write some browser-side JavaScript and explore how the Socket.io package can let us send messages between users.