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Getting Started with Node.js

In this chapter, you will gain your first real Node.js experience. We will start by installing Node.js, along with some modules we will use throughout this book. Then, we will set up a development environment. Throughout the book, the Atom IDE will be used. Yes, GitHub's online editor has finally landed for desktop environment and is available on a platform of your preference!

Next, we will create a workspace and start developing our first Node.js application. It will be a simple server application processing incoming HTTP requests. We will go one step further, demonstrating how to modularize and unit test our JavaScript code. Finally, we will deploy our first application on the Heroku Cloud Application platform.

To sum up, in this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Installing Node.js
Installing the Express framework and other modules...

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•Create rich and scalable RESTful API solutions from scratch

•Explore the new features of Node.js 10, Express 4.0, and MongoDB

•Integrate MongoDB in your Node.js application to store and secure your data

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When building RESTful services, it is really important to choose the right framework. Node.js, with its asynchronous, event-driven architecture, is exactly the right choice for building RESTful APIs. This third edition of RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10 will teach you to create scalable and rich RESTful applications based on the Node.js platform. You will be introduced to the latest NPM package handler and understand how to use it to customize your RESTful development process. You will begin by understanding the key principle that makes an HTTP application a RESTful-enabled application. After writing a simple HTTP request handler, you will create and test Node.js modules using automated tests and mock objects; explore using the NoSQL database, MongoDB, to store data; and get to grips with using self-descriptive URLs. You’ll learn to set accurate HTTP status codes along with understanding how to keep your applications backward-compatible. Also, while implementing a full-fledged RESTful service, you will use Swagger to document the API and implement automation tests for a REST-enabled endpoint with Mocha. Lastly, you will explore some authentication techniques to secure your application.

What you will learn

• Install, develop, and test your own Node.js user modules

•Understand the differences between HTTP and RESTful applications

•Use self-descriptive URLs and set accurate HTTP status codes

•Eliminate third-party dependencies in your tests with mocking

•Implement automation tests for a REST-enabled endpoint with Mocha

•Secure your services with NoSQL database integration within Node.js applications

• Integrate a simple frontend using JavaScript libraries available on a CDN server

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Aparatologia ANAD SA de CV Aug 17, 2018

I was looking into something that will explain RESTful APIs in Nodejs, and he does a good job, explaning a lot of thing, in some places needs a little more detail, but you can find it on the web... I thought it was lacking code, the only thing I did not know was you need to call "express start" not "node app.js" and you may think that there are some missing parts on it, like having express listen....

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Carlos I. Martinez Aug 09, 2018

Overall I think it's a really good book if you want to understand the basics and a bit more on how REST API are created and how can be maintain. To get the most of this book the reader should code along the book to know how things works.Pro.- Very accurate concepts- It resumes very well the needed http status code- Very straightforward.Cont.- Some parts the author didn't mentioned where the user should write the code- In the MongoDB part there are some missing parts that should be added in order to make express connect to the database that the writer forgot to mention. Ex:In the connection part the port of the localhost can't be omitted for the server to connect to the dbThis is how it worked for me: `mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/catalog', { useNewUrlParser: true })`Note:Page 133. Where the reader is asked to add a new item to the catalog via the POST method, in the data property the JSON object doesn't need the Stringify function.

Vikas Aug 08, 2019

Good introduction but lacking on mongoose concepts e.g. async part of mongoose and how to handle it is missing

GH Jan 31, 2019

Impossible to follow along, because important instructions about where to write the code and what commands to run are missing.

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Getting Started with Node.js

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Setting up a development environment

Handling HTTP requests

Modularizing code

Testing Node.js

Deploying an application

Installing Node.js

Installing the Express framework and other modules

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