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Node.js Web Development - Fifth Edition

By : David Herron
Book Image

Node.js Web Development - Fifth Edition

By: David Herron

Overview of this book

Node.js is the leading choice of server-side web development platform, enabling developers to use the same tools and paradigms for both server-side and client-side software. This updated fifth edition of Node.js Web Development focuses on the new features of Node.js 14, Express 4.x, and ECMAScript, taking you through modern concepts, techniques, and best practices for using Node.js. The book starts by helping you get to grips with the concepts of building server-side web apps with Node.js. You’ll learn how to develop a complete Node.js web app, with a backend database tier to help you explore several databases. You'll deploy the app to real web servers, including a cloud hosting platform built on AWS EC2 using Terraform and Docker Swarm, while integrating other tools such as Redis and NGINX. As you advance, you'll learn about unit and functional testing, along with deploying test infrastructure using Docker. Finally, you'll discover how to harden Node.js app security, use Let's Encrypt to provision the HTTPS service, and implement several forms of app security with the help of expert practices. With each chapter, the book will help you put your knowledge into practice throughout the entire life cycle of developing a web app. By the end of this Node.js book, you’ll have gained practical Node.js web development knowledge and be able to build and deploy your own apps on a public web hosting solution.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Node.js
6
Section 2: Developing the Express Application
12
Section 3: Deployment

Creating FrontNet for the Notes application

We have the back half of our system set up in Docker containers, as well as the private bridge network to connect the backend containers. It's now time to do the same for the front half of the system: the Notes application (svc-notes) and its associated database (db-notes). Fortunately, the tasks required to build FrontNet are more or less the same as what we did for AuthNet.

The first task is to set up another private bridge network, frontnet. Like authnet, this will be the infrastructure for the front half of the Notes application stack.

Create a directory, frontnet, and in that directory, create a package.json file that will contain the scripts to manage frontnet:

{
"name": "frontnet",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "Scripts to define and manage FrontNet",
"scripts": {
"build-frontnet": "docker network create --driver bridge frontnet",
}...