Means G. - Node for Front-End Developers [2012, PDF, ENG]

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
1. Getting Node Set Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Node and NPM 1
REPL 2
File Organization 3
2. Serving Simple Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Writing a Response Manually 5
Serving a Static Page 6
Serving Client-Side Assets 8
Adding In Middleware 10
3. Interaction with the Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Receiving Data from the Querystring 13
Routing and Receiving Data from a Path 14
Receiving Data from a POST 15
Responding to Asynchronous Requests 16
Real-Time Communication 17
4. Server-Side Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Creating a Dynamic Page 21
Partial Templates 24
Parsing Other File Types 26
Creating Files on the Fly 27
5. Data Sources and Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Connecting to a Database 29
Storing Data in Files 32
Callbacks and Messaging 33
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6. Model-View-Controller and Sharing Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Implementing the MVC Pattern 37
Out-of-the-Box MVC 42
Sharing Modules Between the Client and Server 43
Postscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
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