Название: Node.js API: Learn server-side jаvascript by building your own Node.js server from scratch
Автор: Greg Sidelnikov
Издательство: Learning Curve Books
Год: 2020
Страниц: 102
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 22.7 MB

This book is an introduction to building your own Node server from scratch.

Although Express is a popular framework that acts as a wrapper around native Node architecture it will not be covered by this book. There are already plenty of good tutorials and books that cover the subject. Node API - as the title suggests - will focus on the bare bone server architecture written directly on top of Node in vanilla jаvascript. This book is for those who enjoy the process of understanding how Node-based web applications work from the ground up, without adding more layers of abstraction. There are plenty of lessons to be learned here. Even for those who choose to later move on to Express, MERN or MEAN stack architecture.

Writing server-side applications cannot be done with Node alone. At one point you will need to talk to a database to store user data, emails and passwords, etc. For no particular reason a decision was made to use MySQL module. If you are already familiar with MongoDB it shouldn't be difficult to rewrite API functions to support it. What this book will focus on is overall API server architecture.

Even though many diverse subjects will be covered, I think it's safe to say that ultimately this is a book for beginners. Someone who has a first time encounter with server-side programming in jаvascript.

Node API is a book that can be read as a tutorial walk-through: short chapters contain setup or code required to move on to the next step. So it's important that the book is read from start to finish in linear progression.