Chapter 5Transforming Data and Testing Continuously

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of data: the kind that your own apps produce and the kind that comes from somewhere else. It would be nice if you only ever had to deal with data that you created. But the reality is that you’ll almost certainly have to work with outside data sources during your career, perhaps frequently!

Between this chapter and the next, you’ll use Node.js to take real data from the wild and put it into your own local datastore. This work can be neatly approached in two phases: transforming the raw data into an intermediate format, and importing that intermediate data into the datastore.

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to use Node.js to transform XML data into ...

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