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Node.js Web Development

You're reading from   Node.js Web Development Create real-time server-side applications with this practical, step-by-step guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785881503
Length 376 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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David Herron David Herron
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Preface 1. About Node.js FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up Node.js 3. Node.js Modules 4. HTTP Servers and Clients – A Web Application's First Steps 5. Your First Express Application 6. Implementing the Mobile-First Paradigm 7. Data Storage and Retrieval 8. Multiuser Authentication the Microservice Way 9. Dynamic Interaction between Client and Server with Socket.IO 10. Deploying Node.js Applications 11. Unit Testing Index

Chapter 4. HTTP Servers and Clients – A Web Application's First Steps

Now that you've learned about Node.js modules, it's time to put this knowledge to work in building a simple Node.js web application. In this chapter, we'll keep to a simple application, enabling us to explore three different application frameworks for Node.js. In later chapters, we'll build some more complex applications, but before we can walk, we must learn to crawl.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • EventEmitters
  • Listening to HTTP events and the HTTP Server object
  • HTTP request routing
  • ES-2015 template strings
  • Building a simple web application with no frameworks
  • The Express application framework
  • Express middleware functions
  • How to deal with computationally intensive code
  • The HTTP Client object
  • Creating a simple REST service with Express
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