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Node Cookbook

You're reading from   Node Cookbook Discover solutions, techniques, and best practices for server-side web development with Node.js 14

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838558758
Length 512 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Introducing Node.js 14 2. Chapter 2: Handling I/O FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Streams, Streams, Streams 4. Chapter 4: Using Web Protocols 5. Chapter 5: Developing Node.js modules 6. Chapter 6: Exploring Node.js web Frameworks 7. Chapter 7: Working with Databases 8. Chapter 8: Testing with Node.js 9. Chapter 9: Securing Node.js Applications 10. Chapter 10: Performance Optimization 11. Chapter 11: Deploying Node.js Microservices 12. Chapter 12: Debugging Node.js 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementing your module

In this recipe, we're going to start writing our module code. The module we will write will expose a single API that will reverse the sentence we pass to it. We'll also install a popular code formatter to keep our module code consistent.

Getting ready

Ensure you're in the reverse-sentence folder and that package.json is present, indicating that we have an initialized project directory.

We'll also need to create the first JavaScript file for our module:

$ touch index.js

How to do it

We're going to start this recipe by installing a popular code formatter to keep our module code styling consistent. By the end of this recipe, we will have created our first Node.js module using the following steps:

  1. First, let's add prettier as a code formatter for our module. When we know that other users are going to be consuming modules, it's important to have consistent and clearly formatted code so that the users...
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