Publisher: Packt Publishing
David Mark Clements
The principles of asynchronous event-driven programming are perfect for today's web, where efficient real-time applications and scalability are at the forefront. Server-side JavaScript has been here since the 90's but Node got it right. With a thriving community and interest from Internet giants, it could be the PHP of tomorrow.Node Cookbook shows you how to transfer your JavaScript skills to server side programming. With simple examples and supporting code, Node Cookbook talks you through various server side scenarios often saving you time, effort, and trouble by demonstrating best practices and showing you how to avoid security faux pas.Beginning with making your own web server, the practical recipes in this cookbook are designed to smoothly progress you to making full web applications, command line applications, and Node modules. Node Cookbook takes you through interfacing with various database backends such as MySQL, MongoDB and Redis, working with web sockets, and interfacing with network protocols, such as SMTP. Additionally, there are recipes on correctly performing heavy computations, security implementations, writing, your own Node modules and different ways to take your apps live.
Node.js 6.x Blueprints. Maximize the potential of Node.js with real-world projects
Fernando Monteiro
Node.js is the most popular framework to create server-side applications today. Be it web, desktop, or mobile, Node.js comes to your rescue to create stunning real-time applications. Node.js 6.x Blueprints will teach you to build these types of projects in an easy-to-understand manner.The key to any Node.js project is a strong foundation on the concepts that will be a part of every project. The book will first teach you the MVC design pattern while developing a Twitter-like application using Express.js. In the next chapters, you will learn to create a website and applications such as streaming, photography, and a store locator using MongoDB, MySQL, and Firebase. Once you’re warmed up, we’ll move on to more complex projects such as a consumer feedback app, a real-time chat app, and a blog using Node.js with frameworks such as loopback.io and socket.io. Finally, we’ll explore front-end build processes, Docker, and continuous delivery.By the end of book, you will be comfortable working with Node.js applications and will know the best tools and frameworks to build highly scalable desktop and cloud applications.
Node.js Blueprints. Develop stunning web and desktop applications with the definitive Node.js
Krasimir Stefanov Tsonev
Node.js By Example. Learn to use Node.js by creating a fully functional social network
Krasimir Tsonev, Krasimir Stefanov Tsonev
Bethany Griggs, Manuel Spigolon
Node.js is a game-changing technology for building modern web applications and tooling, bringing the power of JavaScript to the server and enabling full-stack development in a unified language. This updated edition of this Node.js cookbook, featuring Node.js 22, equips you with the latest advancements and enhancements in the Node.js framework ecosystem.From Bethany Griggs, who has served on the Node.js Technical Steering Committee and participated in the Node.js Release Working Group, and Manuel Spigolon, a core maintainer of Fastify, comes this fifth edition of the Node.js Cookbook to help you master Node.js 22. This book guides you step by step through crafting reusable code with Node.js modules, streamlining development using the Fastify web framework, and implementing data persistence in databases and rigorous testing practices for robust applications. You’ll address security concerns, optimize performance with worker threads, deploy Node.js microservices using containerization and orchestration, and tackle troubleshooting with effective debugging strategies. Packed with real-world examples, this guide empowers you to harness Node.js 22's full potential for creating secure, performant, and dynamic applications.
Mario Casciaro, Luciano Mammino
In this book, we will show you how to implement a series of best practices and design patterns to help you create efficient and robust Node.js applications with ease.We kick off by exploring the basics of Node.js, analyzing its asynchronous event driven architecture and its fundamental design patterns. We then show you how to build asynchronous control flow patterns with callbacks, promises and async/await. Next, we dive into Node.js streams, unveiling their power and showing you how to use them at their full capacity. Following streams is an analysis of different creational, structural, and behavioral design patterns that take full advantage of JavaScript and Node.js. Lastly, the book dives into more advanced concepts such as Universal JavaScript, scalability and messaging patterns to help you build enterprise-grade distributed applications.Throughout the book, you’ll see Node.js in action with the help of several real-life examples leveraging technologies such as LevelDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, and many others. They will be used to demonstrate a pattern or technique, but they will also give you a great introduction to the Node.js ecosystem and its set of solutions.