In this book, we will show you how to implement a series of best practices and design patterns to help you create efficient and robust Node.js applications with ease.
We kick off by exploring the basics of Node.js, analyzing its asynchronous event driven architecture and its fundamental design patterns. We then show you how to build asynchronous control flow patterns with callbacks, promises and async/await. Next, we dive into Node.js streams, unveiling their power and showing you how to use them at their full capacity. Following streams is an analysis of different creational, structural, and behavioral design patterns that take full advantage of JavaScript and Node.js. Lastly, the book dives into more advanced concepts such as Universal JavaScript, scalability and messaging patterns to help you build enterprise-grade distributed applications.
Throughout the book, you’ll see Node.js in action with the help of several real-life examples leveraging technologies such as LevelDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, and many others. They will be used to demonstrate a pattern or technique, but they will also give you a great introduction to the Node.js ecosystem and its set of solutions.
publication date
2020-07-29
what you will learn
Become comfortable with writing asynchronous code by leveraging callbacks, promises, and the async/await syntax
Leverage Node.js streams to create data-driven asynchronous processing pipelines
Implement well-known software design patterns to create production grade applications
Share code between Node.js and the browser and take advantage of full-stack JavaScript
Build and scale microservices and distributed systems powered by Node.js
Use Node.js in conjunction with other powerful technologies such as Redis, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, and LevelDB
key features
Learn how to create solid server-side applications by leveraging the full power of Node.js 14 * Understand how Node.js works and learn how to take full advantage of its core components as well as the solutions offered by its ecosystem * Avoid common mistakes and use proven patterns to create production grade Node.js applications
approach
This book is a pragmatic guide to the world of Node.js and its patterns. It's not just a reference manual but an interactive journey that aims to give the reader practical skills to write better Node.js applications. Every topic is complemented by an example and each chapter ends with a list of carefully crafted exercises to help the reader put into practice what they learned.
audience
This book is for developers and software architects who have some prior basic knowledge of JavaScript and Node.js and now want to get the most out of these technologies in terms of productivity, design quality, and scalability. Software professionals with intermediate experience in Node.js and JavaScript will also find valuable the more advanced patterns and techniques presented in this book.
This book assumes that you have an intermediate understanding of web application development, databases, and software design principles.
short description
In this book, we will show you how to implement a series of best practices and design patterns to help you create efficient and robust Node.js applications with ease. We start by teaching you how to master the basics of Node.js development, such as its module systems and its event-driven asynchronous programming style. Next, you will learn how creational, structural, and behavioral design patterns can help you create modular and extensible software. Finally, we’ll show you how Node.js applications can be distributed and scaled to create complex software architectures.
subtitle
Design and implement production-grade Node.js applications using proven patterns and techniques
keywords
JavaScript; Software Design; Nodejs; Node.js; Nodejs best practices; Web Applications; Redis
Product ISBN
9781839214110
