Node.js web development : server-side development with Node 10 made easy /: server-side development with Node 10 made easy. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Herron.
• Authors: Herron, David
• Contents: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: About Node.js; The capabilities of Node.js; Server-side JavaScript; Why should you use Node.js?; Popularity; JavaScript at all levels of the stack; Leveraging Google's investment in V8; Leaner asynchronous event-driven model; Microservice architecture; The Node.js is stronger for having survived a major schism and hostile fork; Performance and utilization; Is Node.js a cancerous scalability disaster?; Server utilization, the bottom line, and green web hosting. Node.js, the microservice architecture, and easily testable systemsNode.js and the Twelve-Factor app model; Summary; Chapter 2: Setting up Node.js; System requirements; Installing Node.js using package managers; Installing on Mac OS X with MacPorts; Installing on Mac OS X with Homebrew; Installing on Linux, *BSD, or Windows from package management systems; Installing the Node.js distribution from nodejs.org; Installing from source on POSIX-like systems; Installing prerequisites; Native code modules and node-gyp; Installing developer tools on Mac OS X. Installing from source for all POSIX-like systemsInstalling development instances with nvm; Node.js versions policy and what to use; Running and testing commands; Node.js's command-line tools; Running a simple script with Node.js; Launching a server with Node.js; NPM -- the Node.js package manager; Node.js and ECMAScript 6 (ES-2015, ES-2016, and so on); Using Babel to use experimental JavaScript features; Summary; Chapter 3: Node.js Modules; Defining a module; Node.js module format; File modules; Demonstrating module-level encapsulation; Directories as modules. Node.js's algorithm for require (module)Module identifiers and path names; An example application directory structure; npm -- the Node.js package management system; The npm package format; Finding npm packages; Other npm commands; Installing an npm package; Initializing a new npm package; Maintaining package dependencies with npm; Fixing bugs by updating package dependencies; Declaring Node.js version compatibility; Updating outdated packages you've installed; Installing packages from outside the npm repository; Publishing an npm package; Package version numbers; A quick note about CommonJS.
• Edition: Fourth edition
• Publisher Details: Birmingham : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (492 pages)
• Subjects: 006.76; Computers -- Programming Languages -- JavaScript; Internet programming; JavaScript (Computer program language); Web site development; Internet programming; JavaScript (Computer program language); Web site development; COMPUTERS -- Web -- General; COMPUTERS -- Databases -- Servers; Computers -- Programming -- Open Source; Computer programming / software development; Programming & scripting languages: general; Internet: general works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781788627368; 1788627369
• Related ISBNs: 9781788626859
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