trestles / book-nodejs-web-development-4e

book-nodejs-web-development-4e

terms

• async p47
• error-first-callback p47

1. About Node.js

• Threaded versus event-driven architecture p14
• Performance and utilization p17
• Embracing advances in the Javascript language p22
• Deploying ES2015/2016/2017/2018 JavaScript code p24
• Node.js, the microservice architecture, and easily testable systems p25

2. Setting Up Node.js

• System Requirements p27
• Installing Node.js using package managers p28
• Installing multiple Node.js instances with nvm
• Conversion to async functions and the Promise paradigm p47
  • In the previous section we discussed the util.promisify and its ability to convert a callback-oriented function into one that returns a Promise. p47
• Launching a server with Node.js p48

3. Node.js Modules

• Demonstrating module-level encapsulation p69

4. HTTP Servers and Clients p97

• Sending and Receiving events with EventEmitters p97
• Javascript classes and class inheritance p98
• The EventEmitter Class p99
• The EventEmitter theory p101
• HTTP server applicatons p103
• ES2015 multiline and template strings p106
• HTTP Sniffer - listening to the HTTP conversation p108
• Web application frameworks p110
• Getting started with Express p111
• Walking through the default Express application p116
  • The Express middleware p120
• Making HTTP Client requests p134
• Callling a REST backend service from an Express application p136
• Implementing a simple REST server with Express p137
• Refactoring the Fibonacci application for REST p140

5. Your First Express Application p145

• Promises, async functions, and Express router functions p145
• Promises and error handling p148
• Flattening our asynchronous code p149
• Promises and generators birthed async functions p149
• Express and the MVC paradigm p153
• Theming your Express application p171

6. Implementing the Mobile First Paradigm p177

• Problem - the Notes app isn't mobile friendly p178
• Mobile-first paradigm p179
• Using TWitter Bootstrap for the Notes application p181
  • Setting it up p183
  • Adding Bootstrap to application templates p183
  • Alternative layout frameworks p185
• Flexbox and CSS Grids p185
• Mobile-first design for the Notes application p186
• Building a customized bootstrap p198
• Summary p204

7. Data Storage and Retrieval

• Data storage and asynchronous code p207
• Logging p208
  • Request logging with Morgan p209
  • Debugging Messages p211
  • Capturing stdout and stderr
  • Uncaught exceptions p212
  • Unhandled Promise rejections p213
• Using the ES6 module format p213
  • Rewriting app.js as an ES6 module p213
  • Rewriting bin/www as an ES6 module p216
  • Rewriting models code as ES6 modules p216
  • Rewriting router modules as ES6 modules p218

8. Multiuser Authentication the Microservice Way p251

9. Dynamic Client/Server Interaction with Socket.IO

10. Deploying Node.js Applications p331

• Notes application architecture and deployment considerations p332
• Traditional Linux Node.js service deployment p333
• Node.js microservice deployment with Docker p345
• Summary p389

11. Unit Testing and Functional Testing p391

• Testsing REST backend services p414

12. Security p435