Chapter 7. Developing Real-Time Web Applications

We've finally reached the last chapter of our introductory book to RethinkDB. It's been a long journey so far!

In the previous chapters, you learned how to administer RethinkDB and write and run queries using the ReQL language. You also learned how to administer a cluster, run queries from Node.js, and deploy RethinkDB to the cloud.

In this chapter, we're going to put everything that we've covered together; we'll understand what real-time apps are, how they work, and how to use RethinkDB's features to power a Node.js web application.

In this chapter, you will also learn about the following:

  • How to install and use the Express.js module
  • How to connect a Node.js backend to a .js frontend
  • How to use Changefeeds ...

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