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Node.js in Action
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Node.js in Action

by Nathan Rajlich, Marc Harter, TJ Holowaychuk, Mike Cantelon
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
13h 2m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 3. Node programming fundamentals

This chapter covers

  • Organizing your code into modules
  • Coding conventions
  • Handling one-off events with callbacks
  • Handling repeating events with event emitters
  • Implementing serial and parallel flow control
  • Leveraging flow-control tools

Node, unlike many open source platforms, is easy to set up and doesn’t require much in terms of memory and disk space. No complex integrated development environments or build systems are required. Some fundamental knowledge will, however, help you a lot when starting out. In this chapter we’ll address two challenges that new Node developers face:

  • How to organize your code
  • How asynchronous programming works

The problem of organizing code is familiar to most ...

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