Book description
Node.js in Action, Second Edition is a thoroughly revised book based on the best-selling first edition. It starts at square one and guides you through all the features, techniques, and concepts you'll need to build production-quality Node applications.
About the Technology
You already know JavaScript. The trick to mastering Node.js is learning how to build applications that fully exploit its powerful asynchronous event handling and non-blocking I/O features. The Node server radically simplifies event-driven real-time apps like chat, games, and live data analytics, and with its incredibly rich ecosystem of modules, tools, and libraries, it's hard to beat!
About the Book
Based on the bestselling first edition, Node.js in Action, Second Edition is a completely new book. Packed with practical examples, it teaches you how to create high-performance web servers using JavaScript and Node. You'll master key design concepts such as asynchronous programming, state management, and event-driven programming. And you'll learn to put together MVC servers using Express and Connect, design web APIs, and set up the perfect production environment to build, lint, and test.
What's Inside
- Mastering non-blocking I/O
- The Node event loop
- Testing and deploying
- Web application templating
About the Reader
Written for web developers with intermediate JavaScript skills.
About the Authors
The Second Edition author team includes Node masters Alex Young, Bradley Meck, Mike Cantelon, and Tim Oxley, along with original authors Marc Harter, T.J. Holowaychuk, and Nathan Rajlich.
Quotes
The definitive guide to one of the most important tools of the modern web.
- William E. Wheeler, TEKsystems
Everything you need to know about Node.js...and then some.
- Sander Rossel, COAS Software Systems
Node is a vast subject; this book is both a lighthouse and a manual.
- Philippe Charriere, Clever Cloud
A gentle but powerful introduction to the Node.js ecosystem.
- Jeff Smith, Ascension
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Praise for the First Edition
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- About the Author
- About the Cover Illustration
- Part 1. Welcome to Node
- Part 2. Web development with Node
- Part 3. Beyond web development
- Appendix A. Installing Node
- Appendix B. Automating the web with scraping
- Appendix C. Connect’s officially supported middleware
- Glossary
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product information
- Title: Node.js in Action, Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2017
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781617292576
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