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Index

Node: Up and Running SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with O’Reilly Foreword by Ryan Dahl Foreword by Brendan Eich Preface

Introduction Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

Tom’s Thanks

I. Up and Running

1. A Very Brief Introduction to Node.js

Installing Node.js First Steps in Code

Node REPL A First Server

Why Node?

High-Performance Web Servers Professionalism in JavaScript Browser Wars 2.0

2. Doing Interesting Things

Building a Chat Server Let’s Build Twitter

3. Building Robust Node Applications

The Event Loop Patterns

The I/O Problem Space

Unordered parallel I/O Ordered serial I/O

Writing Code for Production

Error Handling Using Multiple Processors

II. Deep Dive and API Reference

4. Core APIs

Events

EventEmitter Callback Syntax

HTTP

HTTP Servers HTTP Clients

Making HTTP GET requests Uploading data for HTTP POST and PUT The ClientResponse object

URL querystring

I/O

Streams

Readable streams

Filesystem Buffers

A quick primer on binary Binary and strings Using Buffers Working with strings

console.log

5. Helper APIs

DNS Crypto

Hashing HMAC Public Key Cryptography

Encrypting with Cipher Decrypting with Decipher Creating signatures using Sign Verifying signatures with Verify

Processes

process Module

process events Interacting with the current Node process Operating system input/output

process.stdin process.stderr

Event loop and tickers

Child Process

child_process.exec( ) child_process.spawn( )

Testing Through assert VM

6. Data Access

NoSQL and Document Stores

CouchDB

Installation

Installing CouchDB Installing CouchDB’s Node module

Using CouchDB over HTTP Using node-couchdb

Working with databases Creating documents Reading documents Updating documents Deleting documents

Redis

Installation

Installing Redis Installing Redis’s Node module

Basic usage Hashes Lists Sets Sorted sets Subscriptions Securing Redis

MongoDB

MongoDB native driver

Installation Data types Writing records

Mongoose

Installation Defining schemas Manipulating collections Performance

Relational Databases

MySQL

Using NodeDB

Installation Selection Insertion Updating Deletion

Sequelize

PostgreSQL

Installation Selection Insertion, updates, and deletion

Connection Pooling MQ Protocols

RabbitMQ

Installing RabbitMQ Publish and subscribe Work queues

7. Important External Modules

Express

A Basic Express App Setting Up Routes in Express Handling Form Data Template Engines

Layouts and partial views

Middleware

Middleware factories

Socket.IO

Namespaces Using Socket.IO with Express

8. Extending Node

Modules Package Manager

Searching Packages Creating Packages Publishing Packages Linking

Add-ons

Glossary Index About the Authors Colophon SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with O’Reilly

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