The Node Beginner Book 1

Table of Contents......Page 6 Special notice......Page 7 Structure of this document......Page 9 JavaScript and You......Page 11 ``Hello World''......Page 12 The application stack......Page 14 A basic HTTP server......Page 16 Passing functions around......Page 17 How function passing makes our HTTP server work......Page 18 Event-driven asynchronous callbacks......Page 19 How our server handles requests......Page 21 Finding a place for our server module......Page 22 What's needed to ``route'' requests?......Page 24 Routing to real request handlers......Page 27 Making the request handlers respond......Page 31 Serving something useful......Page 39 Handling POST requests......Page 40 Handling file uploads......Page 45 Conclusion and outlook......Page 55 Table of Contents 6 Special notice 7 About 9 Status 9 Intended audience 9 Structure of this document 9 JavaScript and Node.js 11 JavaScript and You 11 A word of warning 12 Server-side JavaScript 12 ``Hello World'' 12 A full blown web application with Node.js 14 The use cases 14 The application stack 14 Building the application stack 16 A basic HTTP server 16 Analyzing our HTTP server 17 Passing functions around 17 How function passing makes our HTTP server work 18 Event-driven asynchronous callbacks 19 How our server handles requests 21 Finding a place for our server module 22 What's needed to ``route'' requests? 24 Execution in the kingdom of verbs 27 Routing to real request handlers 27 Making the request handlers respond 31 Serving something useful 39 Handling POST requests 40 Handling file uploads 45 Conclusion and outlook 55