▶Book Description
Advanced Node.js Development is a practical, project-based book that provides you with all you need to progress as a Node.js developer. Node is a ubiquitous technology on the modern web, and an essential part of any web developer’s toolkit. If you're looking to create real-world Node applications, or you want to switch careers or launch a side-project to generate some extra income, then you're in the right place. This book was written around a single goal: turning you into a professional Node developer capable of developing, testing, and deploying real-world production applications.
There's no better time to dive in. According to the 2018 Stack Overflow Survey, Node is in the top ten for back-end popularity and back-end salary. This book is built from the ground up around the latest version of Node.js (version 9.x.x). You'll be learning all the cutting-edge features available only in the latest software versions.
This book delivers advanced skills that you need to become a professional Node developer. Along this journey you'll create your own API, you'll build a full real-time web app and create projects that apply the latest Async and Await technologies. Andrew Mead maps everything out for you in this book so that you can learn how to build powerful Node.js projects in a comprehensive, easy-to-follow package designed to get you up and running quickly.
▶What You Will Learn
- Develop, test, and deploy real-world Node.js applications
- Master Node.js by building practical, working examples
- Use awesome third-party Node modules such as MongoDB, Mongoose, Socket.io, and Express
- Create real-time web applications
- Explore async and await in ES7
▶Key Features
- Entirely project-based and practical
- Explains the "why" of Node.js features, not just the "how", providing with a deep understanding and enabling you to easily apply concepts in your own applications
- Covers the full range of technologies around Node.js – npm, MongoDB, version control with Git, and many more
▶Who This Book Is For
This book is for anyone looking to launch their own Node applications, switch careers, or freelance as a Node developer. You should have a basic understanding of JavaScript in order to follow this book. This book follows directly on from Learning Node.js Development, but more advanced readers can benefit from this book without having read the first part.
▶What this book covers
- Chapter 1, Getting Set Up, will be a very basic setup for your local environments. We'll learn to install MongoDB and Robomongo.
- Chapter 2, MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs –. Part 1, will help you learn how to connect your Node applications to the MongoDB database you've been running on your local machine.
- Chapter 3, MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs –. Part 2, will help you start playing with Mongoose and connect to our MongoDB database.
- Chapter 4, MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs –. Part 3, will resolve queries and ID validation after playing with Mongoose.
- Chapter 5, Real-Time Web Apps with Socket.io, will help you learn in detail about Socket.io and WebSockets, help you and create real-time web applications.
- Chapter 6, Generating newMessage and newLocationMessage, discusses how to generate text and gelocation messages.
- Chapter 7, Styling Our Chat Page as a Web App, continues our discussion on styling our chat page and make it look more like a real web application.
- Chapter 8, The Join Page and Passing Room Data, continues our discussion about the chat page and look into the join page and passing room data.
- Chapter 9, ES7 classes, will help you learn the ES6 class syntax and using it creating user's class and some other methods.
- Chapter 10, Async/Await Project Setup, will walk you through the process of learning how async/await works.
