"JavaScript is the backbone of the modern web, powering nearly every web app's user interface. Node.js is JavaScript for the server. This greatly expanded second edition introduces new language features while dramatically increasing coverage of core topics. Each hands-on chapter offers progressively more challenging topics and techniques, broadening your skill set and enabling you to think in Node.js. Write asynchronous, non-blocking code using Node.js's style and patterns. Cluster and load balance services with Node.js core features and third-party tools. Harness the power of databases such as Elasticsearch and Redis. Work with many protocols, create RESTful web services, TCP socket clients and servers, and more. Test your code's functionality with Mocha, and manage its life cycle with npm. Discover how Node.js pairs a server-side event loop with a JavaScript runtime to produce screaming fast, non-blocking concurrency. Through a series of practical programming domains, use the latest available ECMAScript features and harness key Node.js classes and popular modules. Create rich command-line tools and a web-based UI using modern web development techniques."--Publisher's website.;Part I. Getting up to speed on Node.js 8. Getting started -- Wrangling the file system -- Networking with sockets -- Connecting robust microservices -- Part II. Working with data. Transforming data and testing continuously -- Commanding databases -- Part III. Creating an application from the ground up. Developing RESTful web services -- Creating a beautiful user experience -- Fortifying your application -- Developing flows with Node-RED.
