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JavaScript and JSON Essentials

You're reading from   JavaScript and JSON Essentials Build light weight, scalable, and faster web applications with the power of JSON

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788624701
Length 226 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sai S Sriparasa Sai S Sriparasa
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Bruno Joseph D'mello Bruno Joseph D'mello
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with JSON 2. The JSON Structures FREE CHAPTER 3. AJAX Requests with JSON 4. Cross-Domain Asynchronous Requests 5. Debugging JSON 6. Building the Carousel Application 7. Alternate Implementations of JSON 8. Introduction to hapi.js 9. Storing JSON Documents in MongoDB 10. Configuring the Task Runner Using JSON 11. JSON for Real-Time and Distributed Data 12. Case Studies in JSON 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Basic server setup using JSON

In Chapter 7, Alternate Implementations of JSON, we already scaffolded a Node server while we worked on the template embedding section. We can either modify it or create a new app. If you are planning to use the same app, you need to do the following:

  • Modify the app.js
  • Eliminate template-related implementation

After modification, we get following structure in our code base:

Just to get a brief idea about the preceding code, we created a simple HTTP server. The createServer method contains the request parameters req to handle the incoming request and the response instance for the outgoing response to and from the server respectively. We are using the end method of the response object to send response data as Hello readers to the client.

Let's go through proper stepwise procedure as shown as follows:

  1. First let us install the hapi framework...
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