Node: Up and Running Node: Up and Running A Note Regarding Supplemental Files Foreword by Ryan Dahl Foreword by Brendan Eich Preface Introduction Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments Tom’s Thanks I. Up and Running 1. A Very Brief Introduction to Node.js Installing Node.js First Steps in Code Node REPL A First Server Why Node? High-Performance Web Servers Professionalism in JavaScript Browser Wars 2.0 2. Doing Interesting Things Building a Chat Server Let’s Build Twitter 3. Building Robust Node Applications The Event Loop Patterns The I/O Problem Space Unordered parallel I/O Ordered serial I/O Writing Code for Production Error Handling Using Multiple Processors II. Deep Dive and API Reference 4. Core APIs Events EventEmitter Callback Syntax HTTP HTTP Servers HTTP Clients Making HTTP GET requests Uploading data for HTTP POST and PUT The ClientResponse object URL querystring I/O Streams Readable streams Filesystem Buffers A quick primer on binary Binary and strings Using Buffers Working with strings console.log 5. Helper APIs DNS Crypto Hashing HMAC Public Key Cryptography Encrypting with Cipher Decrypting with Decipher Creating signatures using Sign Verifying signatures with Verify Processes process Module process events Interacting with the current Node process Operating system input/output process.stdin process.stderr Event loop and tickers Child Process child_process.exec( ) child_process.spawn( ) Testing Through assert VM 6. Data Access NoSQL and Document Stores CouchDB Installation Installing CouchDB Installing CouchDB’s Node module Using CouchDB over HTTP Using node-couchdb Working with databases Creating documents Reading documents Updating documents Deleting documents Redis Installation Installing Redis Installing Redis’s Node module Basic usage Hashes Lists Sets Sorted sets Subscriptions Securing Redis MongoDB MongoDB native driver Installation Data types Writing records Mongoose Installation Defining schemas Manipulating collections Performance Relational Databases MySQL Using NodeDB Installation Selection Insertion Updating Deletion Sequelize PostgreSQL Installation Selection Insertion, updates, and deletion Connection Pooling MQ Protocols RabbitMQ Installing RabbitMQ Publish and subscribe Work queues 7. Important External Modules Express A Basic Express App Setting Up Routes in Express Handling Form Data Template Engines Layouts and partial views Middleware Middleware factories Socket.IO Namespaces Using Socket.IO with Express 8. Extending Node Modules Package Manager Searching Packages Creating Packages Publishing Packages Linking Add-ons Glossary Index About the Authors Colophon Copyright