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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 5: Developing Node.js modules

One of the main attractions to Node.js is the massive ecosystem of external third-party libraries. Node.js modules are libraries or a set of functions you want to include in your application. Most modules will provide an API to expose their functionality. The npm registry is where most Node.js modules are stored, where there are over a million Node.js modules available.

This chapter will first cover how to consume existing Node.js modules from the npm registry for use within your applications using the npm command-line interface.

Later in this chapter, you'll learn how to develop and publish your own Node.js module to the npm registry. There will also be an introduction to using the newer ECMAScript modules syntax, that is available in newer versions of Node.js.

This chapter will cover the following recipes:

  • Consuming Node.js modules
  • Setting up your own module
  • Implementing your module
  • Preparing and publishing your...