Book Description
You've decided to use Node.js for your next project and you need the skills to implement Node in production. It would be great to have Node experts Alex Young and Marc Harter at your side to help you tackle those day-to-day challenges. With this book, you can!
Node.js in Practice is a collection of 115 thoroughly tested examples and instantly useful techniques guaranteed to make any Node application go more smoothly. Following a common-sense Problem/Solution format, these experience-fueled techniques cover important topics like event-based programming, streams, integrating external applications, and deployment. The abundantly annotated code makes the examples easy to follow, and techniques are organized into logical clusters, so it's a snap to find what you're looking for.
Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- About the Cover Illustration
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Part 1. Node fundamentals
- Chapter 1. Getting started
- Chapter 2. Globals: Node’s environment
- Chapter 3. Buffers: Working with bits, bytes, and encodings
- Chapter 4. Events: Mastering EventEmitter and beyond
- Chapter 5. Streams: Node’s most powerful and misunderstood feature
- Chapter 6. File system: Synchronous and asynchronous approaches to files
- Chapter 7. Networking: Node’s true “Hello, World”
- Chapter 8. Child processes: Integrating external applications with Node
- Part 2. Real-world recipes
- Part 3. Writing modules
- Appendix. Community
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product Information
- Title: Node.js in Practice
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2014
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781617290930