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Node Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Bethany Griggs
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Book Image

Node Cookbook - Fourth Edition

4 (1)
By: Bethany Griggs

Overview of this book

A key technology for building web applications and tooling, Node.js brings JavaScript to the server enabling full-stack development in a common language. This fourth edition of the Node Cookbook is updated with the latest Node.js features and the evolution of the Node.js framework ecosystems. This practical guide will help you to get started with creating, debugging, and deploying your Node.js applications and cover solutions to common problems, along with tips to avoid pitfalls. You'll become familiar with the Node.js development model by learning how to handle files and build simple web applications and then explore established and emerging Node.js web frameworks such as Express.js and Fastify. As you advance, you'll discover techniques for detecting problems in your applications, handling security concerns, and deploying your applications to the cloud. This recipe-based guide will help you to easily navigate through various core topics of server-side web application development with Node.js. By the end of this Node book, you'll be well-versed with core Node.js concepts and have gained the knowledge to start building performant and scalable Node.js applications.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Installing Node.js 14 with nvm

This book will be using Node.js 14 throughout, as it is the latest LTS release at the time of writing. Node.js 14 was released in April 2020, was promoted to LTS in October 2020 and will continue to be supported until April 2023. This recipe will cover how to install Node.js 14 using node version manager (nvm). At the time of writing, nvm is an incubation project of the OpenJS Foundation and provides an easy way to install and update Node.js versions.

Getting ready

You will need to have the appropriate permissions on your device to install nvm. This recipe assumes you're on a UNIX-like platform. If you're on Windows, it should be run under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

How to do it…

In this recipe, we're going to be installing Node.js 14 using nvm:

  1. First, we need to install nvm. nvm provides a script that handles the download and installation of nvm. Enter the following command in your Terminal to execute...