You're reading from Node.js for Beginners A comprehensive guide to building efficient, full-featured web applications with Node.js

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803245171

Length 382 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Node.js

Concepts

Web Programming

Author (1):

Ulises Gascón

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Node.js Overview and JavaScript Language FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Node.js

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up the Development Environment

4. Chapter 3: JavaScript Fundamentals

5. Chapter 4: Asynchronous Programming

6. Part 2: Node.js Ecosystem and Architecture

7. Chapter 5: Node.js Core Libraries

8. Chapter 6: External Modules and npm

9. Chapter 7: Event-Driven Architecture

10. Chapter 8: Testing in Node.js

11. Part 3: Web Application Fundamentals

12. Chapter 9: Handling HTTP and REST APIs

13. Chapter 10: Building Web Applications with Express

14. Part 4: Building Solid Web Applications with Node.js

15. Chapter 11: Building a Web Application Project from Scratch

16. Chapter 12: Data Persistence with MongoDB

17. Chapter 13: User Authentication and Authorization with Passport.js

18. Chapter 14: Error Handling in Node.js

19. Chapter 15: Securing Web Applications

20. Part 5: Mastering Node.js Deployment and Portability

21. Chapter 16: Deploying Node.js Applications

22. Chapter 17: Dockerizing a Node.js Application

23. Index

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JavaScript Fundamentals

In this chapter, we will review all the aspects of JavaScript that are relevant to this book. While this topic could be a book in itself, this chapter synthesizes the most basic parts (arrays, objects, strings, and data types) in order to do a deeper analysis of the most complex parts, such as functions and closures.

Even if you are already familiar with JavaScript, this chapter will help you to refresh your knowledge of certain areas. Also, you will learn about the latest changes in JavaScript introduced by the latest specification.

We will also learn how JavaScript has become a standard on how decisions are made when a request change is made for the language.

Additionally, we will review some tools that will help us to write better JavaScript by using linters, debugging tools, and proper documentation for our code.

To sum up, here are the main topics that we will explore in this chapter: