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Node Cookbook

By : David Mark Clements
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Node Cookbook

By: David Mark Clements

Overview of this book

The principles of asynchronous event-driven programming are perfect for today's web, where efficient real-time applications and scalability are at the forefront. Server-side JavaScript has been here since the 90's but Node got it right. With a thriving community and interest from Internet giants, it could be the PHP of tomorrow. "Node Cookbook" shows you how to transfer your JavaScript skills to server side programming. With simple examples and supporting code, "Node Cookbook" talks you through various server side scenarios often saving you time, effort, and trouble by demonstrating best practices and showing you how to avoid security faux pas. Beginning with making your own web server, the practical recipes in this cookbook are designed to smoothly progress you to making full web applications, command line applications, and Node modules. Node Cookbook takes you through interfacing with various database backends such as MySQL, MongoDB and Redis, working with web sockets, and interfacing with network protocols, such as SMTP. Additionally, there are recipes on correctly performing heavy computations, security implementations, writing, your own Node modules and different ways to take your apps live.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Node Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Introduction


A thriving module ecosystem has been one of the core goals of Node since its inception. The framework leans heavily toward modularization. Even the core functionality (such as HTTP) is made available through the module system.

It's almost as easy to create our own modules as it is to use core and third-party modules. All we need to know is how the module system works and a few best practices.

A great module is one that performs a specific function to a high standard and great code is the result of multiple development cycles. In this chapter, we're going to develop a module from scratch, beginning with defining its Application Programming Interface (API), to creating our module over a series of development cycle iterations. We'll finally deploy it to npm for the benefit of all.