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Learning Node.js Development

You're reading from   Learning Node.js Development Learn the fundamentals of Node.js, and deploy and test Node.js applications on the web

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788395540
Length 658 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Mead Andrew Mead
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Preface 1. Getting Set Up FREE CHAPTER 2. Node Fundamentals – Part 1 3. Node Fundamentals – Part 2 4. Node Fundamentals – Part 3 5. Basics of Asynchronous Programming in Node.js 6. Callbacks in Asynchronous Programming 7. Promises in Asynchronous Programming 8. Web Servers in Node 9. Deploying Applications to Web 10. Testing the Node Applications – Part 1 11. Testing the Node Applications – Part 2 12. Another Book You May Enjoy

Weather app with promises

In this section, we'll learn how to use a library that has promises built in. We'll explore the axios library, which is really similar to request. Although, instead of using callbacks as request does, it uses promises. So we don't have to wrap our calls in promises to get that promise functionality. We'll actually be recreating the entire weather app in this section. We'll only have to write about 25 lines of code. We'll go through the entire process: taking the address, getting the coordinates, and then fetching the weather.

Fetching weather app code from the app.js file

To fetch weather app code from the app.js file, we'll duplicate app.js, because we configure...

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