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Server Side development with Node.js and Koa.js Quick Start Guide

By : Olayinka Omole
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Server Side development with Node.js and Koa.js Quick Start Guide

By: Olayinka Omole

Overview of this book

Every developer wants to build modular and scalable web applications. Modern versions of JavaScript have made this possible in Node.js, and Koa is a Node.js framework that makes it easy. This book is the ideal introduction for JavaScript developers who want to create scalable server side applications using Node.js and Koa.js. The book shows you how Koa can be used to start projects from scratch, register custom and existing middleware, read requests, and send responses to users. We will explore the core concepts in Koa, such as error handling, logging, and request and response handling. We will dive into new concepts in JavaScript development, and see how paradigms such as async/await help with modern Node.js application development. By the end of this book, you will be building robust web applications in Koa using modern development paradigms and techniques of Node.js development.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to build an API in Koa, from the ground up. You learned how to structure your projects in a modular manner when developing APIs in Koa. You also learned how to implement logging, routing, and validation on a CRUD API.

Koa shows us how easy it is to get started in API development, and we are really only limited by our imagination when it comes to building robust APIs with the framework.

In the next chapter, we will focus on building a blog with Koa. This will enable us to explore templating and authentication in Koa.