Learning Node.js Development

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Mount the downloaded WebStorm-10*.dmg disk image file as another disk in your system."

A block of code is set as follows:

console.log('Starting app.js');const fs = require('fs');const _ = require('lodash');const yargs = require('yargs');

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

const argv = yargs.argv;var command = process.argv[2];console.log('Command:', command);console.log('Process', process.argv); ...