Table of Contents for
Node.js 8 the Right Way

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  1. Title Page
  2. Node.js 8 the Right Way
  3. Node.js 8 the Right Way
  4. Node.js 8 the Right Way
  5. Node.js 8 the Right Way
  6.  Acknowledgments
  7.  Preface
  8. Why Node.js the Right Way?
  9. What’s in This Book
  10. What This Book Is Not
  11. Code Examples and Conventions
  12. Online Resources
  13. Part I. Getting Up to Speed on Node.js 8
  14. 1. Getting Started
  15. Thinking Beyond the web
  16. Node.js’s Niche
  17. How Node.js Applications Work
  18. Aspects of Node.js Development
  19. Installing Node.js
  20. 2. Wrangling the File System
  21. Programming for the Node.js Event Loop
  22. Spawning a Child Process
  23. Capturing Data from an EventEmitter
  24. Reading and Writing Files Asynchronously
  25. The Two Phases of a Node.js Program
  26. Wrapping Up
  27. 3. Networking with Sockets
  28. Listening for Socket Connections
  29. Implementing a Messaging Protocol
  30. Creating Socket Client Connections
  31. Testing Network Application Functionality
  32. Extending Core Classes in Custom Modules
  33. Developing Unit Tests with Mocha
  34. Wrapping Up
  35. 4. Connecting Robust Microservices
  36. Installing ØMQ
  37. Publishing and Subscribing to Messages
  38. Responding to Requests
  39. Routing and Dealing Messages
  40. Clustering Node.js Processes
  41. Pushing and Pulling Messages
  42. Wrapping Up
  43. Node.js 8 the Right Way
  44. Part II. Working with Data
  45. 5. Transforming Data and Testing Continuously
  46. Procuring External Data
  47. Behavior-Driven Development with Mocha and Chai
  48. Extracting Data from XML with Cheerio
  49. Processing Data Files Sequentially
  50. Debugging Tests with Chrome DevTools
  51. Wrapping Up
  52. 6. Commanding Databases
  53. Introducing Elasticsearch
  54. Creating a Command-Line Program in Node.js with Commander
  55. Using request to Fetch JSON over HTTP
  56. Shaping JSON with jq
  57. Inserting Elasticsearch Documents in Bulk
  58. Implementing an Elasticsearch Query Command
  59. Wrapping Up
  60. Node.js 8 the Right Way
  61. Part III. Creating an Application from the Ground Up
  62. 7. Developing RESTful Web Services
  63. Advantages of Express
  64. Serving APIs with Express
  65. Writing Modular Express Services
  66. Keeping Services Running with nodemon
  67. Adding Search APIs
  68. Simplifying Code Flows with Promises
  69. Manipulating Documents RESTfully
  70. Emulating Synchronous Style with async and await
  71. Providing an Async Handler Function to Express
  72. Wrapping Up
  73. 8. Creating a Beautiful User Experience
  74. Getting Started with webpack
  75. Generating Your First webpack Bundle
  76. Sprucing Up Your UI with Bootstrap
  77. Bringing in Bootstrap JavaScript and jQuery
  78. Transpiling with TypeScript
  79. Templating HTML with Handlebars
  80. Implementing hashChange Navigation
  81. Listing Objects in a View
  82. Saving Data with a Form
  83. Wrapping Up
  84. 9. Fortifying Your Application
  85. Setting Up the Initial Project
  86. Managing User Sessions in Express
  87. Adding Authentication UI Elements
  88. Setting Up Passport
  89. Authenticating with Facebook, Twitter, and Google
  90. Composing an Express Router
  91. Bringing in the Book Bundle UI
  92. Serving in Production
  93. Wrapping Up
  94. Node.js 8 the Right Way
  95. 10. BONUS: Developing Flows with Node-RED
  96. Setting Up Node-RED
  97. Securing Node-RED
  98. Developing a Node-RED Flow
  99. Creating HTTP APIs with Node-RED
  100. Handling Errors in Node-RED Flows
  101. Wrapping Up
  102. A1. Setting Up Angular
  103. A2. Setting Up React
  104. Node.js 8 the Right Way

Wrapping Up

In this chapter we’ve used Node.js to perform file operations in Node.js’s evented, asynchronous, callback-oriented way. You learned how to watch files for changes and to read and write files. You also learned how to spawn child processes and access command-line arguments.

Along the way, we covered the EventEmitter class. We used the on() method to listen for events and handle them in our callback functions. And we used Streams—which are a special kind of EventEmitter—to process data in buffered chunks or pipe it directly to other streams.

Oh, and let’s not forget about errors. You learned Node.js’s convention of passing an err argument to callbacks, and how error events can be captured from an EventEmitter.

Keep these patterns in mind as you continue through the book. Third-party libraries sometimes have different styles, but the concepts you’ve learned here reappear throughout the Node.js ecosystem.

In the next chapter we’ll dig into the other form of server-side I/O: network connections. We’ll explore the domain of networked services, building on the concepts and practices developed here.

The following are some bonus questions for you to try out your newly gained Node.js knowledge.

Fortifying Code

The various example programs we developed in this chapter lack many safety checks. Consider the following questions, and how you’d change the code to address them:

  • In the file-watching examples, what happens if the target file doesn’t exist?
  • What happens if a file being watched gets deleted?

Expanding Functionality

In an early example of our file-watcher program, we pulled the filename to watch from process.argv. Consider these questions:

  • Instead, how would you take the process to spawn from process.argv?
  • How would you pass an arbitrary number of additional parameters from process.argv to the spawned process (e.g., node watcher-spawn-cmd.js target.txt ls -l -h)?

Footnotes

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http://nodejs.org/api/fs.html

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https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html

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https://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html

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http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/contents.html

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