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Node.js Web Development - Fifth Edition

By : David Herron
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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
Deploying a Docker Swarm to AWS EC2 with Terraform

So far in this book, we've created a Node.js-based application stack comprising two Node.js microservices, a pair of MySQL databases, and a Redis instance. In the previous chapter, we learned how to use Docker to easily launch those services, intending to do so on a cloud hosting platform. Docker is widely used for deploying services such as ours, and there are lots of options available to us for deploying Docker on the public internet.

Because Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a mature feature-filled cloud hosting platform, we've chosen to deploy there. There are many options available for hosting Notes on AWS. The most direct path from our work in Chapter 11, Deploying Node.js Microservices with Docker, is to create a Docker Swarm cluster on AWS. That enables us to directly reuse the Docker compose file we created.

Docker...