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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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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

Flexbox and CSS Grids

Two new technologies impacting web application development are these new CSS layout methodologies. The CSS3 committee has been working on several fronts, including page layout.

In the distant past, we used nested HTML tables for page layout. That is a bad memory that we don't have to revisit. More recently, we've been using a box model using <div> elements, and even at times using absolute or relative placement techniques. All these techniques have been suboptimal in several ways, some more than others.

One popular layout technique is to divide the horizontal space into columns and assign a certain number of columns to each thing on the page. With some frameworks, we can even have nested <div> elements, each with their own set of columns. Bootstrap 3, and other modern frameworks, used that layout technique.

The two new CSS layout methodologies, Flexbox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_flex-box_layout) and CSS Grids (https://developer.mozilla...

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