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You're reading from Node Web Development - Second Edition JavaScript is no longer just for browsers and this exciting introduction to Node.js will show you how to build data-intensive applications that run in real time. Benefit from an easy, step-by-step approach that really works.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2013

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781782163305

Length 248 pages

Edition Edition

Tools

Node.js

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

David Herron

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Node Web Development Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. About Node FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting up Node

3. Node Modules

4. HTTP Servers and Clients – A Web Application's First Steps

5. Implementing a Simple Express Application

6. Data Storage and Retrieval

7. Multiuser Authorization, Deployment, Scaling, and Hosting

8. Dynamic Interaction between the Client and Server Application

9. Unit Testing

Index

Installing the StrongLoop Node distribution

StrongLoop (http://strongloop.com) has put together a supported version of Node that is prepackaged with several useful tools. This is a Node distribution in the same sense in which Fedora or Ubuntu are Linux distributions. StrongLoop brings together several useful packages, some of which were written by StrongLoop. StrongLoop tests the packages together, and distributes installable bundles through their website.

The packages in the distribution include Express, Passport, Mongoose, Socket.IO, Engine.IO, Async, and Request. We will use all of those modules in this book.

To install, navigate to the company home page and click on the Products link. They offer downloads of precompiled packages for both RPM and Debian Linux systems, as well as Mac OS X and Windows. Simply download the appropriate bundle for your system.

For the RPM bundle, type the following: