Learning Node.js: A Hands-On Guide to Building Web Applications in JavaScript

4. Writing Simple Applications

Now that you have a better understanding of how the JavaScript language really works, it’s time to start unleashing the power of Node.js to write web applications. As I mentioned in the Introduction to this book, you will work on a small photo album website throughout this book. In this chapter, you start by working on a JSON server to serve up the list of albums and pictures in each of those albums, and by the end, you add the capability to rename an album. In the process, you get a good understanding of the basics of running a JSON server, as well as how it interacts with a lot of the basic parts of HTTP such as GET and POST parameters, headers, requests, and responses. This first generation of the photo album ...