You're reading from Mastering Node.js Web Development Go on a comprehensive journey from the fundamentals to advanced web development with Node.js

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804615072

Length 778 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Node.js

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Adam Freeman

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

1. Putting Node.js in Context FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Ready

3. Working with the Node.js Tools

4. JavaScript and TypeScript Primer

5. Understanding Node.js Concurrency

6. Handling HTTP Requests

7. Using Node.js Streams

8. Using Bundles and Content Security

9. Unit Testing and Debugging

10. Node.js in Detail

11. Creating the Example Project

12. Using HTML Templates

13. Handling Form Data

14. Using Databases

15. Using Sessions

16. Creating RESTful Web Services

17. Authenticating and Authorizing Requests

18. SportsStore

19. SportsStore: A Real Application

20. SportsStore: Navigation and Cart

21. SportsStore: Orders and Validation

22. SportsStore: Authentication

23. SportsStore: Administration

24. SportsStore: Deployment

25. Other Books You May Enjoy

26. Index

Using HTML Templates

In this chapter, I describe how templates are used to generate HTML content, allowing an application to adapt the content display to the user to reflect the request that is being processed or the application’s state data.

Like many of the topics described in this book, templates are much easier to understand once you see how they work. Therefore, I will start by creating a simple custom template system using just the features provided by the JavaScript and Node.js APIs, just to explain how the pieces fit together. I will demonstrate server-side templates, where the backend server generates the HTML content, and client-side templates, where the browser generates the content.

The custom templates in this chapter are educational but too limited for use in a real project, so I also introduce a popular template package that has many more features and much better performance, and which is suitable for use in a real project. Table 10.1 puts HTML templates...