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Node Cookbook Second Edition

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Preface

What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Conventions Reader feedback Customer support

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1. Making a Web Server

Introduction Setting up a router

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Simple multilevel routing Parsing the querystring module The routing modules

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Serving static files

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

The favicon gotcha

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Caching content in memory for immediate delivery

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Reflecting content changes

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Optimizing performance with streaming

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Protecting against process memory overruns

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Securing against filesystem hacking exploits

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Whitelisting Node static

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2. Exploring the HTTP Object

Introduction Processing POST data

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Accessing POST data with connect and body-parser

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Handling file uploads

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Using formidable to accept all POST data Preserving filenames with formidable Uploading files via PUT

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Using Node as an HTTP client

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Sending POST requests Multipart file upload as a client

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Implementing download throttling

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Enabling a resume request from broken downloads

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3. Working with Data Serialization

Introduction Converting an object to JSON and back

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Constructing JSONP responses Security and JSONP

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Converting an object to XML and back

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Generating XML attributes and text nodes Partial application

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Browser-server transmission via AJAX

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Sending serialized data from the client to the server

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Working with real data – fetching trending tweets

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Cross referencing Google Hot Trends with Twitter tweets

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4. Interfacing with Databases

Introduction Writing to a CSV file

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Customizing the CSV elements Reading a CSV file Manipulating the CSV data stream

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Connecting and sending SQL to a MySQL server

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Using and cleaning user input Receiving results from the MySQL server

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Storing and retrieving data with MongoDB

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Indexing and aggregation Updating modifiers, sort, and limit MongoDB without MongoDB

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Storing data to CouchDB with Cradle

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Scaling CouchDB with BigCouch

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Retrieving data from CouchDB with Cradle

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Creating an admin user Locking all modifying operations to an admin user Exposing the CouchDB HTTP interface to remote connections

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Accessing the CouchDB changes stream with Cradle

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… See also

Storing and retrieving data with Redis

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Speeding up the Node Redis module Overcoming network latency by pipelining commands

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Implementing PubSub with Redis

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Redis authentication Securing Redis from external connections

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5. Employing Streams

Introduction Consuming streams

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Using read's size argument Consuming via the data event

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Playing with pipes

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Chaining and filtering streams Preparing for greater complexity

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Making stream interfaces

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Making reusable streams Transform streams

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Streaming across Node processes

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Processing stream chunk buffers efficiently Streaming over TCP

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6. Going Real Time

Introduction Creating a WebSocket server

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Creating a Node-based WebSocket client WebSocket streams

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Cross-browser real-time logic with Socket.IO

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Custom events

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Remote Procedure Calls with Socket.IO

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Remote Procedure Calls with SockJS

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Creating a real-time widget

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Preparing for scalability WebSockets as a development tool

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7. Accelerating Development with Express

Introduction Generating Express scaffolding

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Picking apart app.js The initialization process Looking into routes/index.js

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Managing server tier environments

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Setting other environments Changing NODE_ENV permanently

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Implementing dynamic routing

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Route validation Optional routes Asterisks wildcards

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Templating in Express

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Using other template engines EJS templates Literal JavaScript in Jade Jade includes Using layout.jade

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CSS preprocessors with Express

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Nested mixins and rest parameters Playing with colors Using LESS

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Initializing and using a session

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Custom middleware for site-wide session management Flash messages

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Making an Express web app

Getting ready How to do it...

Creating a database bridge Configuring app.js files Modifying the profiler app Modifying the mounted login app

How it works...

Understanding app mounting

Data flow

Route handling Views Mixins Locals Styles User flow

There's more...

Benchmarking

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8. Implementing Security, Encryption, and Authentication

Introduction Implementing Basic Authentication

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Basic Authentication with Express

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Hashing passwords

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Making unique hashes with HMAC Hardened hashing with PBKDF2

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Implementing Digest Authentication

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Logging out of authenticated areas

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Setting up an HTTPS web server

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

HTTPS in Express Securing Basic Authentication with SSL/TLS

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Preventing cross-site request forgery

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Auto-securing the POST forms with the CSRF elements Eliminating cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities

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9. Integrating Network Paradigms

Introduction Sending an e-mail

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Using sendmail as an alternative transport Creating HTML e-mails Sending attachments

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Sending an SMS

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Making an automated phone call

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Communicating with TCP

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Port forwarding Using pcap to watch TCP traffic

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Creating an SMTP server

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Receiving e-mails from external SMTP servers

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Implementing a virtual hosting paradigm

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Virtual hosting Express apps Server Name Indication (SNI)

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10. Writing Your Own Node Modules

Introduction Creating a test-driven module specification

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Unit tests with should.js

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Writing a functional module mock-up

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Writing a module use case example

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Refactoring with prototypical inheritance

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Adding the stat function to the initialized mp3dat object Allowing multiple instances

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Extending a module's API

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Creating the STDIN stream example Creating the PUT upload stream example Merging stat and statStream Integrating the EventEmitter

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Deploying a module to npm

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

npm link .npmignore and npm versions

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11. Taking It Live

Introduction Deploying an app to a server environment

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Using screen instead of nohup Using authbind for privileged ports Hosting multiple processes from port 80

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Automatic crash recovery

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Detecting a respawn limit violation Staying up with forever

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Continuous deployment

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Building module dependencies on update Writing a Node Git hook for integrated testing

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Hosting with a Platform as a Service provider

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Assigning custom domains to Nodejitsu apps Provisioning a database with jitsu

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