Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

Chapter 5. Creating Dynamic Websites

Now that we have established a basic structure for our application, we can start to add more functionality and build a dynamic website that responds to user input.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Adding a new module to our application for storing and deleting data
• Exposing a JSON API to handle user-submitted data
• Implementing communication between the client and server using Ajax
• Building up more complex HTML views using partial templates

Handling user-submitted data

We're going to implement the classic guessing game of Hangman (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangman_(game)). Users will be able to post new words to guess, and to guess words posted by others. We'll look at creating new games ...