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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 7: Working with Databases

Many applications require data access and storage, and in many cases, a traditional relational database suits the application's requirements. In a relational database, the data will likely have a defined relationship, organized into tables.

However, more recently there has been the emergence of non-relational databases, often falling under the term NoSQL databases. NoSQL databases suit data where there isn't an easily predefined structure, or where flexibility in the data structure is required.

In this chapter, we will look at how we can persist data to both SQL and NoSQL databases with Node.js.

 This chapter will cover the following recipes: 

  • Connecting and persisting to a MySQL database
  • Connecting and persisting to a PostgreSQL database
  • Connecting and persisting to MongoDB
  • Persisting data with Redis
  • Persisting data with LevelDB