Node.js for .NET Developers

Chapter 5. Working with site data in Node.js

Data comes in many shapes and sizes. It can come from within your application as it works, from users, or from outside data stores. As with the rest of Node.js, there is an npm package to deal individually with each of the myriad ways data might be provided to your application.

In general, this data can be broken into three major categories, with each having a couple of primary ways that data would likely come to you:

Data from URLs

• Route/Path pattern

• QueryString

Data from users

• Form posts

• Field ...