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Node Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Bethany Griggs
4 (1)
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)

Chapter 10: Performance Optimization

Performance optimization is an endless activity. Further optimizations can always be made. The recipes in this chapter will demonstrate a typical performance optimization workflow.

The performance optimization workflow starts with establishing a baseline. Often, this involves benchmarking our application in some way. In the case of a web server, this could be measuring how many requests our server can handle per second. A baseline measure must be recorded in order for us to have evidence of any performance improvements that have been made.

Once the baseline has been determined, the next step is to identify the bottleneck. The recipes in this chapter will cover using tools such as flame graphs and memory profilers to help us identify the specific bottlenecks in an application. Using these performance tools will ensure that our optimization efforts are invested in the correct place.

Identifying a bottleneck is the first step to understanding...