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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

Node Fundamentals – Part 2

In this chapter, we'll continue our discussion on some more node fundamentals. We'll explore yargs, and we'll see how to parse command-line arguments using process.argv and yargs. After that, we'll explore JSON. JSON is nothing more than a string that looks kind of like a JavaScript object, with the notable differences being that it uses double quotes instead of single quotes and all of your property names—like name and age, in this case—require quotes around them. We'll look into how to convert an object into a string, then define that string, use it, and convert it back to an object.

After we've done that, we'll fill out the addNote function. Finally, we'll look into refactor, moving the functionality into individual functions and testing the functionality.

More specifically, we'll go...

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