Mastering Node.js. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Pasquali, Sandro
• Contents: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgments; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Understanding the Node Environment; Extending JavaScript; Events; Modularity; The Network; V8; Memory and other limits; Harmony; The process object; The Read-Eval-Print Loop and executing a Node program; Summary; Chapter 2: Understanding Asynchronous Event-Driven Programming; Broadcasting events; Collaboration; Queueing; Listening for events; Signals; Forks; File events; Deferred execution; process.nextTick; Timers; setTimeout; setInterval; unref and ref. Understanding the event loopFour sources of truth; Callbacks and errors; Conventions; Know your errors; Building pyramids; Considerations; Listening for file changes; Summary; Chapter 3: Streaming Data Across Nodes and Clients; Exploring streams; Implementing readable streams; Pushing and pulling; Writable streams; Duplex streams; Transforming streams; Using PassThrough streams; Creating an HTTP server; Making HTTP requests; Proxying and tunneling; HTTPS, TLS(SSL), and securing your server; Creating a self-signed certificate for development; Installing a real SSL certificate. The request objectThe URL module; The Querystring module; Working with headers; Using cookies; Understanding content types; Handling favicon requests; Handling POST data; Creating and streaming images with Node; Creating, caching, and sending a PNG representation; Summary; Chapter 4: Using Node to Access the Filesystem; Directories, and iterating over files and folders; Types of files; File paths; File attributes; Opening and closing files; fs.open(path, flags, [mode], callback); fs.close(fd, callback); File operations; fs.rename(oldName, newName, callback); fs.truncate(path, len, callback). Fs.ftruncate(fd, len, callback)fs.chown(path, uid, gid, callback); fs.fchown(fd, uid, gid, callback); fs.lchown(path, uid, gid, callback); fs.chmod(path, mode, callback); fs.fchmod(fd, mode, callback); fs.lchmod(path, mode, callback); fs.link(srcPath, dstPath, callback); fs.symlink(srcPath, dstPath, [type], callback); fs.readlink(path, callback); fs.realpath(path, [cache], callback); fs.unlink(path, callback); fs.rmdir(path, callback); fs.mkdir(path, [mode], callback); fs.exists(path, callback); fs.fsync(fd, callback); Synchronicity; Moving through directories; Reading from a file. Reading byte by bytefs.read(fd, buffer, offset, length, position, callback); Fetching an entire file at once; fs.readFile(path, [options], callback); Creating a readable stream; fs.createReadStream(path, [options]); Reading a file line by line; The Readline module; Writing to a file; Writing byte by byte; fs.write(fd, buffer, offset, length, position, callback); Writing large chunks of data; fs.writeFile(path, data, [options], callback); fs.appendFile(path, data, [options], callback); Creating a writable stream; fs.createWriteStream(path, [options]); Caveats; Serving static files.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 005.2762; COMPUTERS -- Internet -- Application Development; Application software; JavaScript (Computer program language); Application software; JavaScript (Computer program language); Application software; JavaScript (Computer program language); COMPUTERS -- Web -- Web Programming; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1306166039; 9781306166034; 9781782166337; 1782166335
• Related ISBNs: 1782166327; 1782166335; 9781782166320
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