Node.js 8 the Right Way

Wrapping Up

In this first chapter of Part II of the book, we started working with data from external sources. Acquiring, transforming, storing, and querying data are crucial skills in modern software development with Node.js.

Using Project Gutenberg’s catalog data, you iteratively developed the code and tests to parse and make sense of RDF (XML) files. This allowed us to use Mocha and to harness the expressive power of Chai, an assertion library that facilitates for BDD.

For the nuts and bolts of parsing and querying the XML documents, you used Cheerio, a Node.js module that provides a jQuery-like API. Although we didn’t use a lot of CSS, we used some sophisticated selectors to pick out specific elements, then we walked the DOM using Cheerio’s ...