Node.js in Practice

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Cover Illustration

1. Node fundamentals

Chapter 1. Getting started

1.1. Getting to know Node

1.1.1. Why Node?

1.1.2. Node’s main features

1.2. Building a Node application

1.2.1. Creating a new Node project

1.2.2. Making a stream class

1.2.3. Using a stream

1.2.4. Writing a test

1.3. Summary

Chapter 2. Globals: Node’s environment

2.1. Modules

Technique 1 Installing and loading modules

Technique 2 Creating and managing modules

Technique 3 Loading a group of related modules

Technique 4 Working with paths

2.2. Standard I/O and the console object

Technique 5 Reading and writing to standard I/O

Technique 6 Logging ...