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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 6: Exploring Node.js web Frameworks

Node.js can be used as a tool to build a variety of systems, including microservices, real-time applications such as chatbots, and even robotics.

One of the most common use cases for Node.js is building web applications. As seen in Chapter 4, Using Web Protocols, Node.js core provides a range of low-level APIs that allow us to build web applications. As this use case is so common, many web frameworks have been created to abstract web protocols into higher-level APIs for building web frameworks.

In this chapter, we're going to build web applications using several of the most popular web frameworks to gain an understanding of their differences and similarities, and their suitability for specific tasks.

This chapter will cover the following:

  • Building web applications with Express.js
  • Building web applications with Koa.js
  • Building web applications with Fastify
  • Building web applications with Hapi