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Mastering  Node.js

You're reading from   Mastering Node.js Build robust and scalable real-time server-side web applications efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888960
Length 498 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sandro Pasquali Sandro Pasquali
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Preface 1. Understanding the Node Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Asynchronous Event-Driven Programming 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. Using Multiple Processes 8. Scaling Your Application 9. Microservices 10. Testing Your Application 11. Organizing Your Work into Modules 12. Creating Your Own C++ Add-ons

Native Node testing and debugging tools

A preference for tested code has formed part of the Node community's ethos since its inception, reflected in the fact that most popular Node modules, even simple ones, are distributed with test suites. While browser-side development with JavaScript suffered for many years without usable testing tools, the relatively young Node distribution contains many. Perhaps because of this, many mature and easy-to-use third-party testing frameworks have been developed for Node. This leaves a developer no excuse for writing untested code! Let's look into some of the provided tools for debugging and testing Node programs.

Writing to the console

Console output is the most basic testing and...

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