January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 22m
English
Creating web services is what Node.js was made for, and that’s still a dominant use case for it. In this chapter, we’ll continue the multipart journey to build out a web application, this time by implementing RESTful web services.
It’s a long chapter, not because the code is particularly verbose, but because the concepts deserve particular attention. We’ll cover all of these topics on the way:
Node.js 8 is the first long-term support (LTS) version to include async functions, a recent ECMAScript feature. Unlike regular functions that run to completion, async functions allow you to effectively suspend execution to await an asynchronous result. You’ll use async functions to dramatically simplify ...
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