You're reading from Node.js for Beginners A comprehensive guide to building efficient, full-featured web applications with Node.js

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803245171

Length 382 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Node.js

Concepts

Web Programming

Author (1):

Ulises Gascón

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Node.js Overview and JavaScript Language FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Node.js

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up the Development Environment

4. Chapter 3: JavaScript Fundamentals

5. Chapter 4: Asynchronous Programming

6. Part 2: Node.js Ecosystem and Architecture

7. Chapter 5: Node.js Core Libraries

8. Chapter 6: External Modules and npm

9. Chapter 7: Event-Driven Architecture

10. Chapter 8: Testing in Node.js

11. Part 3: Web Application Fundamentals

12. Chapter 9: Handling HTTP and REST APIs

13. Chapter 10: Building Web Applications with Express

14. Part 4: Building Solid Web Applications with Node.js

15. Chapter 11: Building a Web Application Project from Scratch

16. Chapter 12: Data Persistence with MongoDB

17. Chapter 13: User Authentication and Authorization with Passport.js

18. Chapter 14: Error Handling in Node.js

19. Chapter 15: Securing Web Applications

20. Part 5: Mastering Node.js Deployment and Portability

21. Chapter 16: Deploying Node.js Applications

22. Chapter 17: Dockerizing a Node.js Application

23. Index

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Handling HTTP and REST APIs

In this chapter, we will learn about the internet from both a historical point of view and a practical understanding of the infrastructure behind the internet that we know and use every day.

We will deep dive into the protocols and architectures that make it possible to create web projects and will explore the RFCs that are the backbone of the current web browsing experience.

We will master all the components and theoretical concepts around HTTP, URLs, and REST APIs.

To sum up, here are the main topics that we will explore in this chapter:

The history of the internet and how the internet infrastructure works
What Requests for Comments (RFCs) are and how to use them
HTTP communications between the server and clients (Single-Page Applications (SPAs) versus server-side rendering)
Mastering HTTP (headers, status codes, payloads, verbs, and more)
Using tools to debug HTTP requests
How REST APIs are structured
How the JSON...