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Learning Node.js [Video]

By : C Y Kan
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Learning Node.js [Video]

By: C Y Kan

Overview of this book

<p>Node.js, with its strong features and ability to write server- as well as client-side code with JavaScript, has become a popular choice among developers to build powerful web applications.</p> <p>This video will help you get a comprehensive understanding of Node.js, and will also demonstrate how you can use the power of Node.js to create scalable and responsive web apps easily and efficiently. We will start by giving you an overview of Node and setting up an architecture to build web apps. Once the web app is ready, we will extend it by making it more responsive and adding popular plugins to it. You will also learn how to work with SQL and NoSQL databases, and finally will see how to deploy and maintain the application to a production environment.</p> <h1>Style and Approach</h1> <p>This video course provides an end-to-end journey to viewers, starting from installing Node.js through to deploying the sample web app to the production environment.</p>
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
Chapter 5
Developing an API Server
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Section 5
Testing APIs with cURL
Take a look at how easy it is to test REST APIs, in this video. - Use the most basic but handy command line tool, curl. - Learn about some commonly-used curl options. - Illustrate the usage of curl by making requests to our express app