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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

Refactoring

In the previous section, you created the addNote function, which works well. It starts by creating some static variables, then we fetch any existing notes, we check for duplicates, and if there are none, we push it onto the list, and then we save the data back into the filesystem.

The only problem is that we'll be doing a lot of these steps over and over again for every method. For example, with getAll, the idea is to fetch all of the notes, and send them back to app.js so it can print them to the screen for the user. The first thing we'll to do inside of the getAll statement is have the same code; we'll have our try-catch block to fetch the existing notes.

Now, this is a problem because we'll be repeating code throughout the application. It will be best to break out the fetching of notes and the saving of notes into separate functions that we can...

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