Fullstack Node.js: The Complete Guide to Building Production Apps with Node.js

by David Guttman

Fullstack The Complete Guide to Building Production Apps with Node.js - Full Package Fullstack Node.js contains everything you need to learn to create fast, production Node.js code. 1 How to create high-performance API servers in Node 2 How to leverage Node's async capabilities for maximum performance 3 Community conventions for organize Node.js code 4 Storing data in a database and exposing it via an API 5 When Node.js is the best choice (and when it's not) 6 How to accept huge file uploads 7 How to implement authentication for users and protected routes 8 How to deploy your app for the world to use 9 How to create command-line interfaces and tools 10 How to test Node.js Applications The author of the book is David Guttman. Here's what you should know about He's run JS.LA for 8 years (It's one of the largest JavaScript Meetup groups) He's on the Official Node.js Mentorship Team He runs the NodeSchool Los Angeles Chapter ...and he's built production Node servers that handle 10 billion+ requests per day In Fullstack Node.js, David shares with you his code structure, practices, and styles so that you can build your own high-performance Node.js servers. Includes completed example code for every chapter in the book. Learn how to create Node.js applications from the team that create Fullstack React, Fullstack D3, and ng-book. 8 // 320+ Table of - Your First Node API - Async in JavaScript and Node.js - A Complete Getting Started - A Complete Persistence - Securing Your Node.js App - Deploying a Node.js Server - Command Line Interfaces - Testing

258 pages, ebook

Published January 1, 2020

Reviews

[Xiyuan Liu · Rating 4 out of 5]

The beginning of the book is interesting. It goes through how to build a server with low level nodejs APIs and then leads you to express. It shows a clear picture why express is useful. The author also likes to refactor the code while building stuff. It's a nice habit to build.

Async chapter is the highlight of the book. It dives deep into callbacks, promises, async await, event emitter and streams. Very informative.

Building a complete server is good overall. I like how the author structures the server code into server, APIs and models. The separation of concerns makes it easy to follow what each module is designed to do.

I am not a big fan of the second half of the book as the author starts to pull in a ton of libraries. I feel it is a bit rushing. It would be nice if we can go through the same process of building something with low level APIs and then improve them with a library. Otherwise, it's easy to get lost why the library is needed.

[Lucy Batson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another strong entry in the Fullstack.io book series: this book dives into the why and how of Node.js, compares/compares contrasts the various async code techniques, and walks you through an API built with Node. This books feels short compared to a lot of the others in the Fullstack library, but the demo app is extremely well constructed, and teaches smart approaches to building in Node.