Node.js 8 the Right Way

Chapter 7Developing RESTful Web Services

Creating web services is what Node.js was made for, and that’s still a dominant use case for it. In this chapter, we’ll continue the multipart journey to build out a web application, this time by implementing RESTful web services.

It’s a long chapter, not because the code is particularly verbose, but because the concepts deserve particular attention. We’ll cover all of these topics on the way:

Node.js Core

Node.js 8 is the first long-term support (LTS) version to include async functions, a recent ECMAScript feature. Unlike regular functions that run to completion, async functions allow you to effectively suspend execution to await an asynchronous result. You’ll use async functions to dramatically ...