Node Web Development Second Edition -- Table of Contents -- Node Web Development Second Edition -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. About Node -- The capabilities of Node -- Server-side JavaScript -- Why should you use Node? -- Threaded versus asynchronous event-driven architecture -- Performance and utilization -- Is Node a cancerous scalability disaster? -- Server utilization, the bottom line, and green web hosting -- What's in a name - Node, Node.js, or Node.JS? -- Summary -- 2. Setting up Node -- System requirements -- Installing Node using package managers -- Installing on Mac OS X with MacPorts -- Installing on Mac OS X with Homebrew -- Installing on Linux from package management systems -- Installing the Node distribution from nodejs.org -- Installing Node on Windows using Chocolatey Gallery -- Installing the StrongLoop Node distribution -- Installing from source on POSIX-like systems -- Installing prerequisites -- Installing developer tools on Mac OS X -- Installing from source for all POSIX-like systems -- Maintaining multiple Node installs simultaneously -- Run a few commands -- testing the commands -- Node's command-line tools -- Running a simple script with Node -- Launching a server with Node -- npm - the Node package manager -- Starting Node servers at system startup -- Summary -- 3. Node Modules -- Defining a module -- Node modules -- Node's algorithm for resolving require(module) -- Module identifiers and path names.

Local modules within your application -- Bundling external dependencies with your application -- System-wide modules in NODE_PATH and elsewhere -- Complex modules - modules as directories -- Node package manager -- The npm package format -- Finding npm packages -- Using the npm commands -- Getting help with npm -- Viewing package information -- Installing an npm package -- Installing native code modules on Windows -- Installing packages local to a module -- Eliminating duplicate modules installed beneath node_modules -- Listing the currently installed packages -- Package scripts -- Editing and exploring installed package content -- Updating outdated packages you've installed -- Uninstalling an installed npm package -- Developing and publishing npm packages -- npm configuration settings -- Package version strings and ranges -- CommonJS modules -- Demonstrating module encapsulation -- Summary -- 4. HTTP Servers and Clients - A Web Application's First Steps -- Sending and receiving events with EventEmitters -- EventEmitter theory -- HTTP server applications -- HTTP Sniffer - listening to the HTTP conversation -- Web application frameworks -- Getting started with Express -- Walking through the default Express application -- Calculating the Fibonacci sequence with Express -- Computationally intensive code and the event loop -- Algorithmic refactoring -- Making HTTP Client requests -- Calling a REST backend service from an Express application -- Implementing a simple REST server with Express -- Refactoring the Fibonacci application for REST -- Some RESTful Node modules -- Summary -- 5. Implementing a Simple Express Application -- Express and the MVC paradigm -- Creating the Notes application code -- The Notes model -- The Notes home page -- Adding a new note (create) -- Viewing notes (read) -- Editing an existing note (update) -- Deleting notes (destroy).

Changing the look of an Express application -- Scaling up and running multiple instances -- Summary -- 6. Data Storage and Retrieval -- Asynchronizing the Notes application -- Injecting the model configuration into routers -- The notes router -- Storing notes in files -- Configuring app.js -- Storing notes with the LevelUP data store -- Installing LevelUP -- LevelUP model code for Notes -- Configuring app.js for LevelUP -- Storing notes in SQL - SQLite3 -- Setting up a schema with SQLite3 -- Model code -- Configuring app.js -- Storing notes the ORM way with the Sequelize module -- Schema setup and model code -- Configuring app.js -- Storing notes in MongoDB with Mongoose -- Implementing the Notes model in Mongoose -- Configuring app.js -- Summary -- 7. Multiuser Authorization, Deployment, Scaling, and Hosting -- User authentication -- Changes in app.js -- The Sequelize-based users model -- Routing module for the login, logout, and account pages -- Initializing the user table -- Running the Notes application -- Deploying Notes on Debian -- Scaling to use all cores on multi-core servers -- Deploying Notes on cloud hosting (AppFog) -- Summary -- 8. Dynamic Interaction between the Client and Server Application -- Adding real-time web features to Notes -- Introducing Socket.IO -- Initializing Socket.IO with Express -- Setting up the client code -- Events between the Notes server and client code -- Modifying the Notes model to send events -- Sending the events from the Notes server -- Browser-side event handlers -- Running the Notes application with Socket.IO -- Listening to the heartbeat and cleaning up when it stops -- Sending messages between users -- Socket.IO events for sending messages between users -- Data model to store messages -- Setting up client-side code for sending messages -- Dispatching messages between the client- and server-side.

Displaying messages to the user -- Running Notes and sending messages -- Summary -- 9. Unit Testing -- Testing asynchronous code -- Assert - the simplest testing methodology -- Testing a model -- Executing the tests -- Testing router functions -- Diagnosing a failing test case -- Making it easy to run the tests -- Summary -- Index.