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Node.js for Beginners

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Product type Book
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803245171
Pages 382 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Ulises Gascón Ulises Gascón
Profile icon Ulises Gascón
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters close

Preface 1. Part 1: Node.js Overview and JavaScript Language
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Node.js 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up the Development Environment 4. Chapter 3: JavaScript Fundamentals 5. Chapter 4: Asynchronous Programming 6. Part 2: Node.js Ecosystem and Architecture
7. Chapter 5: Node.js Core Libraries 8. Chapter 6: External Modules and npm 9. Chapter 7: Event-Driven Architecture 10. Chapter 8: Testing in Node.js 11. Part 3: Web Application Fundamentals
12. Chapter 9: Handling HTTP and REST APIs 13. Chapter 10: Building Web Applications with Express 14. Part 4: Building Solid Web Applications with Node.js
15. Chapter 11: Building a Web Application Project from Scratch 16. Chapter 12: Data Persistence with MongoDB 17. Chapter 13: User Authentication and Authorization with Passport.js 18. Chapter 14: Error Handling in Node.js 19. Chapter 15: Securing Web Applications 20. Part 5: Mastering Node.js Deployment and Portability
21. Chapter 16: Deploying Node.js Applications 22. Chapter 17: Dockerizing a Node.js Application 23. Index 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring numbers

JavaScript has good support for mathematical operations and dates, but sometimes it can be tricker and more limited than other programming languages, so many developers use specialized libraries when the application requires advanced math. For example, if you need to work with vectors, matrices, or complex numbers, you should use a library such as Math.js (https://mathjs.org/).

Here is a typical example of the floating-point precision problem:

console.log(0.1 + 0.2); // 0.30000000000000004
console.log(0.1 + 0.2 === 0.3); // false

As you can see, the result of 0.1 + 0.2 is not 0.3, but 0.30000000000000004. This is because JavaScript uses the IEEE 754 standard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754) to represent numbers, and it is not possible to represent all decimal numbers in binary. This is a common problem in many programming languages; it is not an exclusively JavaScript problem. But you can solve it by using the Number and toPrecision functions as you...

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