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Node.js, MongoDB and Angular Web Development, 2nd Edition
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Node.js, MongoDB and Angular Web Development, 2nd Edition

by Brad Dayley, Brendan Dayley, Caleb Dayley
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
18h 17m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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8Implementing Socket Services in Node.js

An important part of backend services is the ability to communicate with each other over sockets. Sockets allow one process to communicate with another process through an IP address and port. This can be useful when implementing interprocess communication (IPC) for two different processes running on the same server or accessing a service running on a completely different server. Node.js provides the net module that allows you to create both socket servers and clients that can connect to socket servers. For secure connections, Node.js provides the tls module that allows you to implement secure TLS socket servers and clients.

Understanding Network Sockets

Network sockets are endpoints of communication ...

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