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Node.js Web Development

You're reading from   Node.js Web Development Create real-time server-side applications with this practical, step-by-step guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785881503
Length 376 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Preface 1. About Node.js FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up Node.js 3. Node.js Modules 4. HTTP Servers and Clients – A Web Application's First Steps 5. Your First Express Application 6. Implementing the Mobile-First Paradigm 7. Data Storage and Retrieval 8. Multiuser Authentication the Microservice Way 9. Dynamic Interaction between Client and Server with Socket.IO 10. Deploying Node.js Applications 11. Unit Testing Index

ES-2015 Promises and Express router functions

Before we get into developing our application, we have another new ES-2015 feature to discuss—the Promise class. Promise objects are used for deferred and asynchronous computation. A Promise class represents an operation that hasn't completed yet, but is expected to be completed in the future.

In Chapter 1, About Node.js, we briefly discussed the Promise class while discussing Node.js's asynchronous execution model. Since Node.js was designed before the Promise class, the Node.js community follows a different convention for writing asynchronous code; this is the callback function. Those callback functions are called to perform any kind of deferred or asynchronous computation.

The Promise class approaches the same problem from a different angle. It has one large advantage in avoiding the so-called Pyramid of Doom that's inevitable with deeply nested callback functions.

Promises are just one way to work around this so-called...

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