Skip to Content
Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications
book

Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

by Daniel Li
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
764 pages
20h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

What's a proxy? What's a reverse proxy?

A proxy is a server used by the client to indirectly access other servers. From the perspective of the server, it will view the proxy server as the client, and be oblivious to the original client. Proxy servers are the intermediary servers that your request passes through when it tries to get from your machine to the remote server.

A reverse proxy is the same, but the scheme is flipped. This is how a reverse proxy works:

  1. The reverse proxy receives a request
  2. It relays the request to the proxied service (for example, an application server, such as our Express application)
  3. It receives the response from the service
  4. It sends the response back to the client(s)

The client is oblivious to the fact that there's ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Learn TypeScript 3 by Building Web Applications

Learn TypeScript 3 by Building Web Applications

Sebastien Dubois, Alexis Georges

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781788477321