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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

Encoding user input

In this section, you'll learn how to set up yargs for the weather app. You'll also learn how to include user input, which is very important for our application.

As shown in the previous chapter, HTTPS request section, the user will not type their encoded address into the Terminal; instead they will be typing in a plain text address like 1301 Lombard Street.

Now this will not work for our URL, we need to encode those special characters, like the space, replacing them with %20. Now %20 is the special character for the space, other special characters have different encoding values. We'll learn how to encode and decode strings, so we can set up our URL to be dynamic. It's going to be based off of the address provided in the Terminal. That's all we're going to discuss in this section. By the end of the section, you'll be able to...

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