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Mastering RethinkDB

You're reading from   Mastering RethinkDB Master the skills of building real-time apps dramatically easier with open source, scalable database - RethinkDB

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786461070
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shahid Shaikh Shahid Shaikh
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Preface 1. The RethinkDB Architecture and Data Model 2. RethinkDB Query Language FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Exploration Using RethinkDB 4. Performance Tuning in RethinkDB 5. Administration and Troubleshooting Tasks in RethinkDB 6. RethinkDB Deployment 7. Extending RethinkDB 8. Full Stack Development with RethinkDB 9. Polyglot Persistence Using RethinkDB 10. Using RethinkDB and Horizon

Installing and configuring Horizon

Horizon is built on top of RethinkDB, so a RethinkDB server is mandatory before using Horizon. You will also need to install the latest Node.js and NPM (node package manager).

Download and install Node.js from here https://nodejs.org/en/download/.

To install Horizon, run the following command in the terminal:

sudo npm install -g horizon

This will install Horizon as a global node module package. You should be seeing a similar screen as shown here:

Installing and configuring Horizon

Once the installation is complete, you can access Horizon from the terminal using the hz  command.

To create a new Horizon project, the CLI provides the hz init command. Here is how to create a new project using Horizon:

hz init horizonDemo

The third parameter is the project name and the directory name of the project. Horizon CLI will create the directory if it doesn't exist.

Once the project is created, it will show the files created on the terminal, something similar to the following screenshot:

Installing and configuring Horizon

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