Building Scalable Apps with Redis and Node.js -- Table of Contents -- Building Scalable Apps with Redis and Node.js -- Credits -- About the Author -- 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 -- Downloading the color images of this book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Backend Development with Express -- Node.js and Node Package Manager -- Using Express in Node -- Using middleware in Express -- Creating our own middleware -- Adding templates to the mix -- Layouts -- Using sessions in Express -- Using cookies in Express -- Adding sessions -- Redis as a session store -- Processing forms -- Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) -- Very simple authentication -- Setting up a config file for our app -- Route mapping -- Updating our app to use the config -- Methods to extend an application -- Summary -- 2. Extending Our Development with Socket.IO -- Node package versions -- Building a simple Socket.IO app -- Installing the package -- Building the client -- Using Python to serve our site -- Ping-Pong -- Creating some interaction -- Adding the browser side -- Acknowledgments -- Broadcasting a message -- Using the disconnect event -- Creating namespaces -- Building our namespace client -- Adding rooms -- Using namespaces or rooms -- Namespaces -- Finding namespaces -- When to use rooms -- Finding rooms -- Using namespaces and rooms together -- Using Socket.IO and Express together -- Adding Socket.IO to the config -- Who are you? -- Authorization in Socket.IO -- Using the authorization handler -- Cookies and sessions -- Getting the session.

Adding application-specific events -- Using Redis as the store for Socket.IO -- Socket.IO inner workings -- WebSockets -- Ideas to take away from this chapter -- Summary -- 3. Authenticating Users -- Node package versions -- Let's build our authentication -- Registering a Facebook application -- Using Passport to authenticate to Facebook -- Using Google for authentication -- Adding Google authentication to our application -- Adding more OAuth providers -- Adding secure local authentication -- Adding registration -- Adding a database -- Password-storing theory -- OAuth process -- Summary -- 4. RabbitMQ for Message Queuing -- Node package versions -- Getting RabbitMQ -- Installing on Mac OS X -- The RabbitMQ management plugin -- Installing on Linux -- Installing on Windows -- Our first message queue -- Using the management interface -- Sending messages -- Queuing messages -- Adding another worker -- Sending messages back -- Creating StartServer -- Building the worker -- Charging cards in real time -- Adding message queues to PacktChat -- Topic exchange -- Building the worker -- Message queuing in RabbitMQ -- Summary -- 5. Adopting Redis for Application Data -- Node package versions -- Installing Redis -- Installing on Mac OS X -- Installing on Linux -- Installing on Windows -- Using Redis data structures -- Building a simple Redis application -- Redis schema -- Using a hash -- Keys in Redis -- Redis persistence -- Removing Redis keys -- Using Redis as a message queue -- Adding Redis to PacktChat -- Defining the Redis structures -- Creating our Redis functions -- Redis is for application state -- Summary -- 6. Using Bower to Manage Our Frontend Dependencies -- Node package versions -- Installing and using Bower -- Introducing React -- Introducing Backbone -- Using Backbone models -- Using Backbone collections -- Summary.

7. Using Backbone and React for DOM Events -- Bower package versions -- Finishing Socket.IO -- Creating React components -- React summary -- Backbone models -- Syncing the models with Socket.IO -- Creating the model -- Creating collections -- The Backbone router -- Putting it all together -- Updating CSS and the layout -- Adding a new worker -- Trying out our application -- Summary -- 8. JavaScript Best Practices for Application Development -- Node package versions -- Setting up tests -- Using Istanbul for code coverage -- Setting up different environments -- Twelve Factor App -- Fixing the config file -- Creating our environment files -- Adding more environments -- Introducing Grunt -- Building a basic Grunt file -- Automating our tests -- Preprocessing our files -- Using Grunt to clean out a folder -- JSHinting our source files -- Concatenating our code -- Minifying our code -- Grunt summary -- Static files and CDNs -- Creating an S3 bucket -- Python and installing virtual environments -- Scripting our new tools -- Summary -- 9. Deployment and Scalability -- Creating servers on EC2 -- AWS EC2 summary -- What is Ansible? -- Installing Ansible -- Using Ansible roles -- Installing RabbitMQ -- Installing our application -- Deploying the code -- Installing the workers -- Load balancing multiple application servers -- Automating roles -- A summary of Ansible -- Creating new environments -- Scalability -- Different types of scalability -- Horizontal -- Vertical -- Summary -- 10. Debugging and Troubleshooting -- Node packages -- Using Chrome Developer Tools -- Elements -- Network -- Sources -- Timeline -- Profiles -- Resources -- Audits -- Console -- Inspecting requests -- Debugging -- Frontend debugging -- Backend debugging -- Debugging summary -- CPU profiling our application -- Taking heap snapshots -- Frontend memory leaks -- Memory leak summary.

Summary -- Index.