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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about how to set up yargs for the weather-app file and how to include user input in it. Next, we looked into how to handle errors inside of our callback functions and how to recover from those errors. We simply added else/if statements inside of the callback function. Callbacks are just one function, so in order to figure out if things went well or if things didn't go well, we have to use else/if statements, this lets us do different things, such as print different messages, depending on whether or not we perceive the request to have gone well. Then, we made our first request to the weather API, and we looked into a way to fetch the weather based off of the latitude-longitude combination.

Last, we looked in chaining the geocodeAddress and getWeather call functions. We took that request call that was originally in app.js, and we moved it...

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