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The Node Craftsman Book

You're reading from   The Node Craftsman Book An Advanced Node.js Tutorial

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787128149
Length 186 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Manuel Kiessling Manuel Kiessling
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Node.js Basics in Detail 2. Working with NPM and Packages FREE CHAPTER
3. Test-driven Node.js Development
4. Object-oriented JavaScript 5. Synchronous and Asynchronous Operations Explained 6. Using and Creating Event Emitters 7. Optimizing Code Performance and Control Flow Management Using the Async Library 8. Node.js and MySQL 9. Node.js and MongoDB 10. Part 2: Building a Complete Web Application with Node.js and Angular 11. Milestone 1 – A First Passing Test Against the Server
12. Milestone 2 – The API Responds with Actual Database Content 13. Milestone 3 – Setting the Stage for a Continuous Delivery Workflow 14. Milestone 4 – Giving Users a Frontend 15. Milestone 5 – More Work on the Backend 16. Milestone 6 – Completing the Backend and Finalizing the Application

Executing expensive asynchronous background tasks in parallel

Let's consider an example where our application queries several different remote web services, presenting the retrieved data on the console.

We are not going to query real remote web services, instead we will write a very simple Node.js HTTP server that will serve as a dummy web service. Our web server doesn't really do anything significant, and therefore we will make it react to requests a bit slower than necessary, in order to simulate a real web service that has a certain workload – as you will see, this makes it easier for us to show the performance gain in our own code optimizations.

Please create a new project folder and create a file server.js with the following content:

'use strict';

var http = require('http');
var url = require('url');
var querystring = require('querystring');

http.createServer...
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