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Node.js Web Development

You're reading from Node.js Web Development Server-side development with Node 10 made easy

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788626859

Length 492 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Node.js

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

David Herron

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

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Contributors

Preface

1. About Node.js FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting up Node.js

3. Node.js Modules

4. HTTP Servers and Clients

5. Your First Express Application

6. Implementing the Mobile-First Paradigm

7. Data Storage and Retrieval

8. Multiuser Authentication the Microservice Way

9. Dynamic Client/Server Interaction with Socket.IO

10. Deploying Node.js Applications

11. Unit Testing and Functional Testing

12. Security

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Storing notes in MongoDB

MongoDB is widely used with Node.js applications, a sign of which is the popular MEAN acronym: MongoDB (or MySQL), Express, Angular, and Node.js. MongoDB is one of the leading NoSQL databases. It is described as a scalable, high-performance, open source, document-oriented database. It uses JSON-style documents with no predefined, rigid schema and a large number of advanced features. You can visit their website for more information and documentation at http://www.mongodb.org.

Note

Documentation on the Node.js driver for MongoDB can be found at https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongodb and http://mongodb.github.io/node-mongodb-native/.

Mongoose is a popular ORM for MongoDB (http://mongoosejs.com/). In this section, we'll use the native MongoDB driver instead, but Mongoose is a worthy alternative.

You will need a running MongoDB instance. The compose.io (https://www.compose.io/) and ScaleGrid.io (https://scalegrid.io/) hosted service providers offer hosted MongoDB services...

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Authors (1)

David Herron

David Herron

David Herron is a software engineer living in Silicon Valley who has worked on projects ranging from an X.400 email server to being part of the team that launched the OpenJDK project, to Yahoo's Node.js application-hosting platform, and a solar array performance monitoring service. That took David through several companies until he grew tired of communicating primarily with machines, and developed a longing for human communication. Today, David is an independent writer of books and blog posts covering topics related to technology, programming, electric vehicles, and clean energy technologies.

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