Learning Node by Powers, Shelley -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface

Who This Book Is For Book Structure Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

1. The Node Environment

Installing Node Saying Hello to the World with Node

A Basic Hello World Application Hello World, Tweaked Node Command-Line Options

Node Hosting Environments

Hosting Node on Your Server, VPS, or Managed Host Cloud Hosting

The Node LTS and Upgrading Node

Node’s New Semantic Versioning Upgrading Node

Node, V8, and ES6 Advanced: Node C/C++ Add-ons

2. Node Building Blocks: Global Objects, Events, and Node’s Asynchronous Nature

The global and process Objects

The global Object The process Object

Buffers, Typed Arrays, and Strings

Buffer, JSON, StringDecoder, and UTF-8 Strings Buffer Manipulation

Node’s Callback and Asynchronous Event Handling

The Event Queue (Loop) Creating an Asynchronous Callback Function EventEmitter The Node Event Loop and Timers

Nested Callbacks and Exception Handling

3. Basics of Node Modules and Node Package Manager (npm)

An Overview of the Node Module System

How Node Finds and Loads a Module Sandboxing and the VM Module

An In-Depth Exploration of NPM Creating and Publishing Your Own Node Module

Creating a Module Packaging an Entire Directory Preparing Your Module for Publication Publishing the Module

Discovering Node Modules and Three Must-Have Modules

Better Callback Management with Async Command-Line Magic with Commander The Ubiquitous Underscore

4. Interactive Node with REPL and More on the Console

REPL: First Looks and Undefined Expressions Benefits of REPL: Getting a Closer Understanding of JavaScript Under the Hood Multiline and More Complex JavaScript

REPL Commands REPL and rlwrap Custom REPL

Stuff Happens—Save Often The Necessity of the Console

Console Message Types, Console Class, and Blocking Formatting the Message, with Help from util.format() and util.inspect() Providing Richer Feedback with console and a Timer

5. Node and the Web

The HTTP Module: Server and Client What’s Involved in Creating a Static Web Server Using Apache to Proxy a Node Application Parsing the Query with Query String DNS Resolution

6. Node and the Local System

Exploring the Operating System Streams and Pipes A Formal Introduction to the File System

The fs.Stats Class The File System Watcher File Read and Write Directory Access and Maintenance File Streams

Resource Access with Path Creating a Command-Line Utility Compression/Decompression with ZLib Pipes and ReadLine

7. Networking, Sockets, and Security

Servers, Streams, and Sockets

Sockets and Streams TCP Sockets and Servers UDP/Datagram Socket

Guards at the Gate

Setting Up TLS/SSL Working with HTTPS The Crypto Module

8. Child Processes

child_process.spawn

child_process.exec and child_process.execFile child_process.fork

Running a Child Process Application in Windows

9. Node and ES6

Strict Mode let and const Arrow Functions Classes Promises with Bluebird

10. Full-Stack Node Development

The Express Application Framework MongoDB and Redis Database Systems

MongoDB Redis Key/Value Store

AngularJS and Other Full-Stack Frameworks

11. Node in Development and Production

Debugging Node Applications

The Node Debugger Node Inspector

Unit Testing

Unit Testing with Assert Unit Testing with Nodeunit Other Testing Frameworks

Mocha Vows

Keeping Node Up and Running Benchmark and Load Testing with Apache Bench

12. Node in New Environments

Samsung IoT and GPIO Windows with Chakra Node Node for Microcontrollers and Microcomputers

Fritzing Node and Adruino Node and Raspberry Pi 2

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