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Node.js Web Development

You're reading from   Node.js Web Development Server-side web development made easy with Node 14 using practical examples

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838987572
Length 760 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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David Herron David Herron
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Node.js
2. About Node.js FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Up Node.js 4. Exploring Node.js Modules 5. HTTP Servers and Clients 6. Section 2: Developing the Express Application
7. Your First Express Application 8. Implementing the Mobile-First Paradigm 9. Data Storage and Retrieval 10. Authenticating Users with a Microservice 11. Dynamic Client/Server Interaction with Socket.IO 12. Section 3: Deployment
13. Deploying Node.js Applications to Linux Servers 14. Deploying Node.js Microservices with Docker 15. Deploying a Docker Swarm to AWS EC2 with Terraform 16. Unit Testing and Functional Testing 17. Security in Node.js Applications 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating FrontNet for the Notes application

We have the back half of our system set up in Docker containers, as well as the private bridge network to connect the backend containers. It's now time to do the same for the front half of the system: the Notes application (svc-notes) and its associated database (db-notes). Fortunately, the tasks required to build FrontNet are more or less the same as what we did for AuthNet.

The first task is to set up another private bridge network, frontnet. Like authnet, this will be the infrastructure for the front half of the Notes application stack.

Create a directory, frontnet, and in that directory, create a package.json file that will contain the scripts to manage frontnet:

{
"name": "frontnet",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "Scripts to define and manage FrontNet",
"scripts": {
"build-frontnet": "docker network create --driver bridge frontnet",
}...
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