Node.js

Express in Action is a carefully designed tutorial that teaches you how to build web applications using Node and Express.

Build hyper-fast and hyper-efficient web applications with GraphQL! This practical, comprehensive guide introduces the powerful GRANDStack for developing full stack web applications based in graph data structures.

In Full Stack GraphQL Applications you will learn how to:

• Build backend functionalities for GraphQL applications
• Model a GraphQL API with GraphQL type definitions
• Utilize Neo4j as a backend database
• Handle authentication and authorization with GraphQL
• Implement pagination and rate limiting in a GraphQL API
• Develop a GraphQL service with Apollo Server
• Install Neo4j Database on different platforms
• Create a basic frontend application using React and Apollo Client
• Deploy a full stack GraphQL application to the cloud

The GraphQL query language radically reduces over-fetching or under-fetching of data by constructing precise graph-based data requests. In

Full Stack GraphQL Applications you’ll learn how to build graph-aware web applications that take full advantage of GraphQL’s amazing efficiency. Neo4j’s William Lyon teaches you everything you need to know to design, deploy, and maintain a GraphQL API from scratch. He reveals how you can build your web apps with GraphQL, React, Apollo, and Neo4j Database, aka “the GRANDstack,” to get maximum performance out of GraphQL.

Get Programming with Node.js Get Programming with Node.js teaches you to write server-side code in JavaScript using Node.js. In 37 fast-paced, fun, and practical lessons, you'll discover how to extend your existing JavaScript skills to write back-end code for your web applications.

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.

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

Who this book is for

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.

Node.js in Action, Second Edition is a thoroughly revised book based on the best-selling first edition. It starts at square one and guides you through all the features, techniques, and concepts you'll need to build production-quality Node applications.

Node.js: Novice to Ninja is your hands-on guide to learning everything needed to build a professional web application using Node.js, the hugely popular open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment. You'll start off by getting familiar with the basics - installation and building your first apps - before moving onto more advanced concepts, including debugging, asynchronous programming, using Express.js, working with databases, deployment, and more. You'll finish by building a complete multi-player real-time quiz application.

• Install Node and build your first application
• Get started with Express.js and use it to process forms
• Master asynchronous programming in Node.js
• Work with MongoDB and MySQL databases
• Use WebSockets for real-time applications
• Understand the Node ecosystem: npm and modules
• Build a complete multiplayer quiz app
• And much more!

The book includes access to 25 high quality tutorial videos, containing 1.5 hours of content.

Sails.js in Action is a comprehensive guide to building enterprise-capable web applications using Node and Sails. Written by the creators of the Sails.js framework, this book carefully introduces each concept, technique, and tool with real-world examples and crystal clear explanations.