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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

Customizing a Bootstrap build

One reason to use Bootstrap is that you can easily build a customized version. The primary reason to customize a Bootstrap build is to adjust the theme from the default. While we can use stylesheet.css to adjust the presentation, it's much more effective to adjust theming the Bootstrap way. That means changing the SASS variables and recompiling Bootstrap to generate a new bootstrap.css file.

Bootstrap stylesheets are built using the build process described in the package.json file. Therefore, customizing a Bootstrap build means first downloading the Bootstrap source tree, making modifications, then using the npm run dist command to build the distribution. By the end of this section, you'll know how to do all that.

The Bootstrap uses SASS, which is one of the CSS preprocessors used to simplify CSS development. In Bootstrap's code, one file (scss/_variables.scss) contains variables used throughout the rest of Bootstrap's .scss files. Change...