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Mastering Node.js

You're reading from   Mastering Node.js Expert techniques for building fast servers and scalable, real-time network applications with minimal effort

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782166320
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Understanding the Node Environment 2. Understanding Asynchronous Event-Driven Programming FREE CHAPTER 3. Streaming Data Across Nodes and Clients 4. Using Node to Access the Filesystem 5. Managing Many Simultaneous Client Connections 6. Creating Real-time Applications 7. Utilizing Multiple Processes 8. Scaling Your Application 9. Testing your Application A. Organizing Your Work B. Introducing the Path Framework C. Creating your own C++ Add-ons Index

Appendix C. Creating your own C++ Add-ons

 

"If two (people) on the same job agree all the time then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless."

 
 --Darryl F. Zanuck

A very common description of Node is this: Node.js allows JavaScript to run on the server. While true, this is also misleading. Node's creators organized and linked powerful C++ libraries in such a way that their efficiency could be harnessed without developers needing to comprehend their complexities. Node abstracts away the complexity of multiuser, simultaneous multithreaded I/O by wrapping that concurrency model into a single-threaded environment that is easy to understand and already well understood by millions of web developers.

When you are working with Node you are ultimately working with C++, a language whose suitability for enterprise-level software development no one would question.

Node's C++ foundation puts lie to claims that Node is not enterprise...

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