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Node.js Blueprints

You're reading from   Node.js Blueprints Develop stunning web and desktop applications with the definitive Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783287338
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Krasimir Stefanov Tsonev Krasimir Stefanov Tsonev
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Preface 1. Common Programming Paradigms FREE CHAPTER 2. Developing a Basic Site with Node.js and Express 3. Writing a Blog Application with Node.js and AngularJS 4. Developing a Chat with Socket.IO 5. Creating a To-do Application with Backbone.js 6. Using Node.js as a Command-line Tool 7. Showing a Social Feed with Ember.js 8. Developing Web App Workflow with Grunt and Gulp 9. Automate Your Testing with Node.js 10. Writing Flexible and Modular CSS 11. Writing a REST API 12. Developing Desktop Apps with Node.js Index

Planning the application

We can split the command-line tool into two parts: the first one reads a directory and returns all the files in it and the second one sends the images to Flickr. It's a good idea to form these two functionalities in different modules. The following diagram shows how our project will appear:

Planning the application

The images directory will be used as a test folder, that is, our script will do its job in that directory. Of course, we can have another one if we want. The two modules mentioned previously are saved in the lib directory. So, we should first get the files (Files.js) and then upload them (Flickr.js) to the portal. The two operations are asynchronous, so both the modules should accept callbacks. The following is the content of the index.js file:

var flickr = require('./lib/Flickr');
var files = require('./lib/Files');
var flickrOptions = {};

files(function(images) {
  flickr(flickrOptions, images, function() {
    console.log("All the images uploaded...
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