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Mastering  Node.js

You're reading from   Mastering Node.js Build robust and scalable real-time server-side web applications efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888960
Length 498 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sandro Pasquali Sandro Pasquali
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Kevin Faaborg Kevin Faaborg
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Preface 1. Understanding the Node Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Asynchronous Event-Driven Programming 3. Streaming Data Across Nodes and Clients 4. Using Node to Access the Filesystem 5. Managing Many Simultaneous Client Connections 6. Creating Real-Time Applications 7. Using Multiple Processes 8. Scaling Your Application 9. Microservices 10. Testing Your Application 11. Organizing Your Work into Modules 12. Creating Your Own C++ Add-ons

A calculator

Of course, one would never bother to write an add-on to simply echo back strings. It is more likely that you will want to expose an API or interface to your Node programs. Let’s create a simple calculator, with two methods: add and subtract. In this example, we will demonstrate how to pass arguments from Javascript to methods within an add-on, and to send any results back.

The complete code for this example will be found in your code bundle. The meat of the program can be seen in this snippet, where we define an interface for our two methods, each one expecting to receive two numbers as arguments:

#include <node.h>

namespace calculator_module {

using v8::Exception;
using v8::FunctionCallbackInfo;
using v8::Isolate;
using v8::Local;
using v8::Number;
using v8::Object;
using v8::String;
using v8::Value;

void Add(const FunctionCallbackInfo&lt...
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