Unlock the full potential of Node.js with practical skills to develop and deploy scalable and high-performance server-side applications that enhance your client-side projects
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Key Features:
- Server-side applications with Node.js, covering HTTP requests, static and dynamic content delivery, form data processing, and RESTful web services
- Hands-on examples, step-by-step code listings, and best practices for building and deploying server applications
- Common services like authentication, managing application state, and performance optimization
Book Description:
Dive into the world of Node.js with this comprehensive guide, taking you from foundational concepts to practical web development mastery. Written by an industry veteran with over 50 programming books under his belt, this book will help both beginners and seasoned developers.
Gain a deep understanding of the most important server-side features in web development with Node.js. The first part of the book will get you up to speed with basic features of Node.js and TypeScript. In the second part, you'll elevate your skills by creating simplified implementations of key server-side features to understand how they work and how they are presented to clients. Armed with the understanding gained from implementing each feature, you will be able to replace custom code with production-ready open-source packages.
The third part will help you understand how server-side features are combined for practical web development. Using Adam Freeman's signature SportsStore application, you will learn how to develop client and server-side components, culminating in a thorough application deployment preparation.
By the end of this Node.js book, you will be able to build and deploy server applications to support HTTP clients, including JavaScript applications created with frameworks such as Angular and React.
What You Will Learn:
- Process HTTP requests and perform file operations
- Create RESTful web services that can be consumed by client-side apps
- Work with server apps serving JavaScript clients, such as React and Angular
- Leverage Node.js to work with popular databases
- Apply practical knowledge through building the SportsStore project
- Authenticate users and authorize access to application features
Who this book is for:
This book is for programmers with a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS who are transitioning into JavaScript development and are looking to master the implementation of server-side applications.
Table of Contents
- Getting Ready
- Working with the Node.js Tools
- JavaScript and TypeScript Primer
- Understanding Node.js Concurrency
- Handling HTTP Requests
- Using Node.js Streams
- Using Bundles and Content Security
- Unit Testing and Debugging
- Creating the Example Project
- Using HTML Templates
- Handling Form Data
- Using Databases
- Using Sessions
- Creating RESTful Web Services
- Authenticating and Authorizing Requests
- SportsStore: A Real Application
- SportsStore: Navigation and Cart
- SportsStore: Orders and Validation
- SportsStore: Authentication
- SportsStore: Administration
- SportsStore: Deployment
Best-selling author Adam Freeman explains how to get the most from Go, starting from the basics and building up to the most advanced and sophisticated features. You will learn how Go builds on a simple and consistent type system to create a comprehensive and productive development experience that produces fast and robust applications that run across platforms.
Go, also known as Golang, is the concise and efficient programming language designed by Google for creating high-performance, cross-platform applications. Go combines strong static types with simple syntax and a comprehensive standard library to increase programmer productivity, while still supporting features such as concurrent/parallel programming.
Each topic is covered in a clear, concise, no-nonsense approach that is packed with the details you need to learn to be truly effective. Chapters include common problems and how to avoid them.
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Experienced developers who want to use Go to create applicationsProfessional developers will produce leaner applications for the ASP.NET Core platform using the guidance in this best-selling book, now in its 9th edition and updated for ASP.NET Core for .NET 6. It contains detailed explanations of the ASP.NET Core platform and the application frameworks it supports. This cornerstone guide puts ASP.NET Core for .NET 6 into context and dives deep into the tools and techniques required to build modern, extensible web applications. New features and capabilities such as MVC, Razor Pages, Blazor Server, and Blazor WebAssembly are covered, along with demonstrations of how they are applied.
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Angular is an open-source JavaScript library maintained by Google. It has many excellent options when it comes to server-side development and is used in some of the largest and most complex web applications in the world to enhance HTML in the browser. Its cornerstone is the ability to create applications that are extendable, maintainable, testable, and standardized. Knowing Angular's foundations and understanding its applications is an asset in any developer toolbox.
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Each topic is covered clearly and concisely and is packed with the details you need to learn to be truly effective. The most important features are given a no-nonsense in-depth treatment and chapters include common problems and details of how to avoid them.
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Best-selling author Adam Freeman explains how to get the most from Web API 2 by building on the foundation of the MVC Framework and the ASP.NET platform. He starts with the nuts-and-bolts and shows you everything through to advanced features, going in-depth to give you the knowledge you need.
The Swift programming language has transformed the world of iOS development and started a new age of modern development. Pro Design Patterns in Swift shows you how to harness the power and flexibility of Swift to apply the most important and enduring design patterns to your applications, taking your development projects to master level.
This book will teach you those design patterns that have always been present at some level in your code, but may not have been recognized, acknowledged, or fully utilized. Implementation of specific pattern approaches will prove their value to any Swift developer.
Best-selling author Adam Freeman explains how to get the most from design patterns. He starts with the nuts-and-bolts and shows you everything through to advanced features, going in-depth to give you the knowledge you need.
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Each topic is presented clearly and concisely. Chapters include common problems and how to avoid them.
What You'll Learn
Who This Book Is For
JavaScript developers who want to use React to create dynamic client-side applications
Get the most from ASP.NET Core Identity. Best-selling author Adam Freeman teaches developers common authentication and user management scenarios and explains how they are implemented in applications. He covers each topic clearly and concisely, and the book is packed with the essential details you need to be effective.
The book takes a deep dive into the Identity framework and explains how the most important and useful features work in detail, creating custom implementations of key components to reveal the inner workings of ASP.NET Core Identity. ASP.NET Core Identity provides authentication and user management for ASP.NET Core applications. Identity is a complex framework in its own right, with support for a wide range of features, including authenticating users with services provided by Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
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Each topic is covered clearly and concisely and is packed with the essential details you need to learn to be truly effective.What You Will Learn
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This book is for developers with knowledge of ASP.NET Core MVC who are introducing Angular into their projects.In Pro jQuery 2.0 seasoned author, Adam Freeman, demonstrates how to get the most from jQuery 2.0 by focussing on the practical features of the technology and how they can be applied to solving real-world problems. In this comprehensive reference he goes in depth to give you the practical knowledge that you need.
Each topic is covered clearly and concisely, and is packed with the details you'll need to learn to be truly effective. The most important features are given a no-nonsense, in-depth treatment, and chapters contain examples that demonstrate both the power and the subtlety of jQuery.
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