Table of Contents for
Advanced Node.js Development
Advanced Node.js Development
Published by
Packt Publishing, 2018
- Advanced Node.js Development
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Advanced Node.js Development
- Packt Upsell
- Why subscribe?
- PacktPub.com
- Contributors
- About the author
- Packt is searching for authors like you
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Who this book is for
- What this book covers
- To get the most out of this book
- Download the example code files
- Download the color images
- Conventions used
- Get in touch
- Reviews
- Getting Set Up
- Installing MongoDB and Robomongo for Linux and macOS
- Installing MongoDB and Robomongo for Windows
- Creating and reading data
- Summary
- MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 1
- Connecting to MongoDB and writing data
- Creating a directory for the project
- Connecting the mongodb-connect file to the database
- Adding a string as the first argument
- Adding the callback function as the second argument
- Error handling in mongodb-connect
- Running the file in the Terminal
- Adding data to the database
- Adding a new record into a collection
- The ObjectId
- The _id property in the context of MongoDB
- Calling the .getTimestamp function
- Using object destructuring ES6
- Creating a new instance of objectID
- Fetching data
- Fetching todos in Robomongo file
- The find method
- Writing a query to fetch certain values
- Writing a query to fetch completed todos
- Qureying todos by id
- Implementing the count method
- Querying users collection
- Setting up the repo
- Deleting documents
- Exploring methods to delete data
- The deleteMany method
- The deleteOne Method
- The deleteOne method
- The findOneAndDelete method
- Using the deleteMany and findOneAndDelete methods
- Removing duplicate documents
- Targeting the documents using ID
- Running the findOneAndDelete and deleteMany statements
- Making commit for the deleting documents methods
- Updating data
- Summary
- MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 2
- Setting up Mongoose
- Setting up root of the project
- Connecting mongoose to database
- Creating the todo model
- Creating a brand-new Todo
- Saving the instance to the database
- Running the Todos script
- Creating a second Todo model
- Validators, Types, and Defaults
- Mongoose validators
- Customizing the Todo text property
- Mongoose defaults
- Mongoose types
- Creating a Mongoose user model for authentication
- Setting up the email property
- Installing Postman
- Making an HTTP request to Google
- Illustrating working of the JSON data
- Resource Creation Endpoint - POST /todos
- Refactoring the server.js file to create POST todos route
- Configuring the Todo and Users file
- Loading Todo and User file in server.js
- Configuring the Express application
- Configuring the POST route
- Getting body data from the client
- Creating an instance of Mongoose model
- Setting up HTTP status code
- Testing POST /todos inside of Postman
- Adding more Todos to the database
- Testing POST /todos
- Installing npm modules for testing POST /todos route
- Setting up the test files
- Loading the test files
- Adding describe block for the test cases
- Making the POST requests via supertest
- Making assertions about the POST request
- Making a request to fetch the Todos from the database
- Adding the catch call for the error handling
- Setting up test scripts in package.json
- Adding testing life cycle method in server.test.js file
- Running the test suite
- Test case: should not create todo with invalid body data
- Making assertions about the length of the Todos collection
- Making commit for POST /todos route
- List Resources - GET /todos
- Creating the GET /todos route
- Testing the GET /todos route
- Setting up Post request to create a todo
- Testing GET /todos
- Adding seed data for the GET /todos test case
- Adding a describe block to the test case
- Adding assertions to the test case
- Summary
- MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 3
- Mongoose queries and ID validation
- Todo.find method
- Todo.findOne method
- Todo.findById method
- Handling situations where the ID doesn't exist
- Validating an ObjectID
- Getting an individual resource – GET /todos/:id
- Taking on the challenge
- Challenge step 1 - filling the code
- Challenge step 2 - Making the query
- challenge step 3 - success path
- Testing GET /todos/:id
- Writing test cases for GET/todos/:id
- Test 1 - Super test request
- Test 2 - Verifying invalid ID
- Test 3 - Validating invalid ObjectID
- Deploying the API to Heroku
- Creating a Heroku app
- Heroku logs
- Postman environments
- Managing Postman environments
- Todo App Local environment
- Todo App Heroku environment
- Deleting a resource – DELETE /todos/:id
- Todo.remove method
- Todo.findOneAndRemove method
- Todo.findByIdAndRemove method
- Creating a delete route
- Testing DELETE /todos/:id
- Test case 1 - should remove a todo
- Test case 2 - should return 404 if todo not found
- Test case 3 - should return 404 if object id is invalid
- Test case 4 - should return 404 if todo not found
- Updating a Resource - PATCH /todos/:id
- Installing Lodash library
- Testing Todos for the patch call
- Testing PATCH /todos/:id
- Test 1 - To complete the incomplete todo
- Test 2 - to make complete todo incomplete
- Creating a Test database
- Summary
- Real-Time Web Apps with Socket.io
- Creating a new web app project
- Setting up our basic app structure
- Setting up the index.html file for DOCTYPE
- Setting up the server.js file for the public directory
- The join method
- Configuring basic server setup
- Setting up a gitignore file
- Making a commit with the current uncommitted files
- Adding Socket.io to an app
- Setting up Socket.io
- Creating a server using the http library
- Configuring the server to use Socket.io
- Communication between the client and server
- The io.on method
- Adding a connection event in the client
- The disconnect event
- Emitting and listening to custom events
- Creating custom events inside an application
- Moving the JavaScript into a separate file
- Adding a newEmail custom event
- The emit method
- Testing the newEmail event
- Adding a createEmail custom event
- socket.emit in the developer console
- The custom events in the chat app
- The newMessage event
- Broadcasting events
- Wiring up the createMessage listener for all users
- Testing the messaging events
- Committing and deploying messaging to Heroku
- Testing messaging in a Firefox browser using Heroku
- Broadcasting events to other users
- Emitting two events when a user connects
- Greeting an individual user
- Broadcasting a new user in the chat
- Testing the user connection
- Summary
- Generating newMessage and newLocationMessage
- Message generator and tests
- Generating the newMessage object using the utility function
- Writing test cases
- Adding the test-watch script
- Adding the test script
- Running the test suite for the message utility
- Integrate the utility function into our application
- Event acknowledgements
- Setting up acknowledgements
- Sending an acknowledgement from server to the client
- Updating the event emitter
- Updating the event listener
- The message form and jQuery
- Using the jQuery library
- Adding the form field in index.html
- Setting up the form tag
- Adding the text field
- Testing the form's rendering
- Using jQuery to select element
- Adding the selector element to index.js
- Testing the update event listener
- Rendering incoming messages to the screen
- Creating an ordered list to render messages
- Using jQuery to create element in index.js
- Testing the incoming messages
- Making a commit for the message form
- Geolocation
- Adding the Send Location button to the application
- Adding a click listener to the Send Location button
- Checking access to the geolocation API
- Fetching a user's position
- Adding the coordinates object in the users position
- Passing coordinates data with the connected users
- Rendering clickable link in place of text coordinates
- Sorting out the URL structure
- Emitting newLoactionMessage
- Adding generateLocationMessage in the message.js file
- Adding an event listener for newLocationMessage
- Adding test case for generateLocationMessage
- Adding variables for the test case
- Making assertion for generateLocationMessage
- Running the test case for generateLocationMessage
- Summary
- Styling Our Chat Page as a Web App
- Styling the chat page
- Storing the template styles
- Tweaking the structure for alignment
- Making user experience improvements
- Changing the form submit listener
- Updating the input tag
- Customizing the Send Location
- Updating the button text
- Timestamps and formatting with Moment
- Timestamps in Node
- The Date object
- Using Moment for timestamps
- The Moment documentation
- Formatting date using Moment
- The Manipulate section in Moment
- Printing message timestamps
- Getting the formatted values back from timestamps
- Updating the message.js file
- Integrating Moment on client
- Updating the newMessage property
- Updating the newLocationMessage property
- Mustache.js
- Adding mustache.js to the directory
- Creating and rendering template for newMessage
- Implementing the Mustache.js rendering method
- Getting all the data showing up
- Providing a custom structure
- Adding the list item tag
- Adding the message body tag
- Creating template for the newLocation message
- Rendering the newLocation template
- Autoscrolling
- Running a height properties calculation
- Creating a new variable to scroll messages to the bottom
- Determining the calculation
- Taking into account the height of new message
- Testing the calculations
- Scrolling a user when necessary
- Committing the calculation-related changes
- Summary
- The Join Page and Passing Room Data
- Adding a join page
- Updating the HTML file
- Adding the head tag in the HTML file
- Adding the body tag in the HTML file
- Adding the form-fields for the chat page
- Committing the changes in index.html
- Passing room data
- Getting data to the server
- The params and deparams
- Setting up listener in server.js
- Defining the isRealString function
- Calling the isRealString function in server.js
- Adding error handler case in chat.js
- Adding test cases for the new validation function
- Test case 1 – should reject non-string values
- Test case 2 – should reject string with only spaces
- Test case 3 – should allow strings with non-space characters
- Socket.io rooms
- Targeting the specific user
- Testing the specific user set up
- Summary
- ES7 classes
- Storing users with ES6 classes – Part I
- The ES6 class syntax
- Creating the ES6 class for a person
- The constructor function
- The method function
- Adding the users class
- Adding the test case for addUser
- Adding new instances in the users.test file
- Making the assertions for the users call
- Running the addUser test case
- Adding the removeUser, getUser, and getUserList methods
- Adding seed data for the test file
- Filling the getUserList
- Adding test case for getUserList
- Filling the getUser
- Test case – should find user
- Test case – should not find user
- Filling the removeUser method
- Test case – should remove a user
- Test case – should not remove user
- Wiring up user list
- Adding People list in the chat room
- Adding jQuery to update the DOM
- Adding user to the user's list
- Adding users with unique ID
- Emitting the event to the clients
- Testing the users list in the chatroom
- Removing users when they leave the chatroom
- Updating the users list when someone left the chatroom
- Emitting custom message
- Rendering the users name to the chatroom
- Adding a jQuery to add the users to the list
- Rendering the updated People list
- Testing the users name in the chatroom
- Making a commit for updated users list
- Sending messages to room only
- Updating the chat.js and server.js files
- Emitting event to the individual room
- Wiring up createLoactionMessage for individual room
- Committing the individual room changes
- New feature ideas
- Summary
- Async/Await Project Setup
- Using async/await features in promises
- Setting up the getUser project
- The array find method
- Running the getUser object test
- Setting up the getGrades project
- Creating grades for the getGrades project
- Returning a new promise
- Setting up the getStatus project
- Resolving the getStatus string
- Calculating the average
- Returning the template string
- Async/await basics
- Using the async function
- Rejecting an error using the async function
- Using the await function
- A real-world example
- Creating a currency-converter using the async/await function
- Exploring APIs for currency exchange rate
- Taking advantage of axios inside our application
- The getExchangeRate function
- The getCountries function
- Creating convertCurrencyAlt as the async/await function
- Handling errors and awaiting async function
- Converting getExchangeRate and getCountries into the async function
- Error handling in the async function
- Printing an error to the screen
- Error handling for the getExchangeRate function
- Summary
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