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Mastering Node.js Web Development

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804615072
Pages 778 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Adam Freeman Adam Freeman
Profile icon Adam Freeman
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters close

1. Putting Node.js in Context
2. Getting Ready 3. Working with the Node.js Tools 4. JavaScript and TypeScript Primer 5. Understanding Node.js Concurrency 6. Handling HTTP Requests 7. Using Node.js Streams 8. Using Bundles and Content Security 9. Unit Testing and Debugging 10. Node.js in Detail
11. Creating the Example Project 12. Using HTML Templates 13. Handling Form Data 14. Using Databases 15. Using Sessions 16. Creating RESTful Web Services 17. Authenticating and Authorizing Requests 18. SportsStore
19. SportsStore: A Real Application 20. SportsStore: Navigation and Cart 21. SportsStore: Orders and Validation 22. SportsStore: Authentication 23. SportsStore: Administration 24. SportsStore: Deployment 25. Other Books You May Enjoy
26. Index

Using third-party enhancements

In the sections that follow, I describe useful enhancements provided by the Express package to deal with streams and tasks that are related to HTTP. Express isn’t the only package that provides these kinds of features, but it is a good default choice for new projects and gives you a foundation from which to compare alternatives.

Working with files

One of the most important tasks for a web server is to respond to requests for files, which provide browsers with the HTML, JavaScript, and other static content required by the client-side part of the application.

Node.js provides a comprehensive API to deal with files in the fs module, and it has support for reading and writing streams, along with convenience features that read or write complete files, such as the readFileSync function I used to read the contents of an HTML file.

The reason I have not described the API in any detail is that working directly with files within a web...

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