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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

Deploying the Notes stack file to the swarm

We have prepared all the elements required to set up a Docker Swarm on the AWS EC2 infrastructure, we have run the scripts required to set up that infrastructure, and we have created the stack file required to deploy Notes to the swarm.

What's required next is to run docker stack deploy from our laptop, to deploy Notes on the swarm. This will give us the chance to test the stack file created earlier. You should still have the Docker context configured for the remote server, making it possible to remotely deploy the stack. However, there are four things to handle first, as follows:

  1. Install the secrets in the newly deployed swarm.
  2. Update the svc-notes environment configuration for the IP address of notes-public.
  3. Update the Twitter application for the IP address of notes-public.
  4. Log in to the ECR instance.

Let's take care of those things and then deploy the Notes stack.

Preparing to deploy the Notes stack to the swarm

We are ready to...