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Mastering Node.js

You're reading from   Mastering Node.js Expert techniques for building fast servers and scalable, real-time network applications with minimal effort

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782166320
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Understanding the Node Environment 2. Understanding Asynchronous Event-Driven Programming FREE CHAPTER 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. Utilizing Multiple Processes 8. Scaling Your Application 9. Testing your Application A. Organizing Your Work B. Introducing the Path Framework C. Creating your own C++ Add-ons Index

Creating 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 expect to receive two numbers as arguments:

#include <node.h>
#include <v8.h>

using namespace v8;

Handle<Value> Add(const Arguments& args) {
  HandleScope scope;

  if(args.Length() < 2) {
    ThrowException(Exception::TypeError(String::New("Wrong number of arguments")));
    return scope.Close(Undefined());
  }

  if(!args[0]->IsNumber() || !args[1]->IsNumber()) {
    ThrowException...
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