Node.js In Action

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this book
About the cover illustration

Part 1: Node fundamentals
1. Welcome to Node.js
-Built on JavaScript
-Asynchronous and evented: the browser
-Asynchronous and evented: the server
-DIRTy applications
-DIRTy by default
-Summary

2. Building a multiroom chat application
-Application overview
-Application requirements and initial setup
-Serving the application's HTML, CSS, and client-side JavaScript
-Handling chat-related messaging using Socket.IO
-Using client-side JavaScript for the application's user interface
-Summary

3. Node programming fundamentals
-Organizing and reusing Node functionality
-Asynchronous programming techniques
-Sequencing asynchronous logic
-Summary

Part 2: Web application development with Node
4. Building Node web applications
-HTTP server fundamentals
-Building a RESTful web service
-Serving static files
-Accepting user input from forms
-Securing your application with HTTPS
-Summary

5. Storing Node application data
-Serverless data storage
-Relational database management systems
-NoSQL databases
-Summary

6. Connect
-Setting up a Connect application
-How Connect middleware works
-Why middleware ordering matters
-Mounting middleware and servers
-Creating configurable middleware
-Using error-handling middleware
-Summary

7. Connect's built-in middleware
-Middleware for parsing cookies, request bodies, and query strings
-Middleware that implements core web application functions
-Middleware that handles web application security
-Middleware for serving static files
-Summary

8. Express
-Generating the application skeleton
-Configuring Express and your application
-Rendering views
-Handling forms and file uploads
-Handling resource downloads
-Summary

9. Advanced Express
-Authenticating users
-Advanced routing techniques
-Creating a public REST API
-Error handling
-Summary

10. Testing Node applications
-Unit testing
-Acceptance testing
-Summary

11. Web application templating
-Using templating to keep code clean
-Templating with Embedded JavaScript
-Using the Mustache templating language with Hogan
-Templating with Jade
-Summary

Part 3: Going further with Node
12. Deploying Node applications and maintaining uptime
-Hosting Node applications
-Deployment basics
-Maximizing uptime and performance
-Summary

13. Beyond web servers
-Socket.IO
-TCP/IP networking in depth
-Tools for interacting with the operating system
-Developing command-line tools
-Summary

14. The Node ecosystem
-Online resources for Node developers
-GitHub
-Contributing to the npm repository
-Summary

Appendix A: Installing Node and community add-ons
Appendix B: Debugging Node
Appendix C: Extending and configuring Express

Index