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Copyright
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: About Node.js
The capabilities of Node.js
Server-side JavaScript
Why should you use Node.js?
Popularity
JavaScript at all levels of the stack
Leveraging Google's investment in V8
Leaner asynchronous event-driven model
Microservice architecture
The Node.js is stronger for having survived a major schism and hostile fork
Performance and utilization
Is Node.js a cancerous scalability disaster?
Server utilization, the bottom line, and green web hosting. Node.js, the microservice architecture, and easily testable systemsNode.js and the Twelve-Factor app model
Summary
Chapter 2: Setting up Node.js
System requirements
Installing Node.js using package managers
Installing on Mac OS X with MacPorts
Installing on Mac OS X with Homebrew
Installing on Linux, *BSD, or Windows from package management systems
Installing the Node.js distribution from nodejs.org
Installing from source on POSIX-like systems
Installing prerequisites
Native code modules and node-gyp
Installing developer tools on Mac OS X. Installing from source for all POSIX-like systemsInstalling development instances with nvm
Node.js versions policy and what to use
Running and testing commands
Node.js's command-line tools
Running a simple script with Node.js
Launching a server with Node.js
NPM --
the Node.js package manager
Node.js and ECMAScript 6 (ES-2015, ES-2016, and so on)
Using Babel to use experimental JavaScript features
Summary
Chapter 3: Node.js Modules
Defining a module
Node.js module format
File modules
Demonstrating module-level encapsulation
Directories as modules. Node.js's algorithm for require (module)Module identifiers and path names
An example application directory structure
npm --
the Node.js package management system
The npm package format
Finding npm packages
Other npm commands
Installing an npm package
Initializing a new npm package
Maintaining package dependencies with npm
Fixing bugs by updating package dependencies
Declaring Node.js version compatibility
Updating outdated packages you've installed
Installing packages from outside the npm repository
Publishing an npm package
Package version numbers
A quick note about CommonJS.