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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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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Set Up 2. Node Fundamentals – Part 1 FREE CHAPTER 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

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In this chapter you learned about Express and how it can be used to easily create websites. We looked at how we can set up a static web server, so when we have an entire directory of JavaScript, images, CSS, and HTML. We can serve that up easily without needing to provide routes for everything. This will let us create all sorts of applications, which we'll be doing throughout the rest of the book.

Next, we continued on learning how to use Express. We took a look at how we can render dynamic templates, kind of like we would with a PHP or Ruby on Rails file. We have some variables and we rendered a template injecting those variables. Then we learned a little bit about handlebars partials, which let us create reusable chunks of code like headers and footers. We also learned about Handlebars helpers, which is a way to run some JavaScript code from inside of your handlebars...

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