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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 4: Using Web Protocols

Node.js was built with web servers in mind. Using Node.js, we can quickly create a web server with a few lines of code, allowing us to customize the behavior of our server.

This chapter will showcase the low-level core application programming interfaces (APIs) that Node.js provides for interacting with web protocols. We'll start by making HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests, creating an HTTP server, and learn how to handle POST requests and file uploads. Later in the chapter, we will learn how to create a WebSocket server and how to create an SMTP server using Node.js.

It's important to have an understanding of how Node.js interacts with underlying web protocols, as these web protocols and fundamental concepts form the basis of most real-world web applications. Later, in Chapter 6, Exploring Node.js Web Frameworks, we will learn how to use web frameworks that abstract the web protocols into higher-level APIs—but having an...