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Node Cookbook

Node Cookbook

By : Bethany Griggs
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Node Cookbook

Node Cookbook

4.5 (11)
By: Bethany Griggs

Overview of this book

A key technology for building web applications and tooling, Node.js brings JavaScript to the server enabling full-stack development in a common language. This fourth edition of the Node Cookbook is updated with the latest Node.js features and the evolution of the Node.js framework ecosystems. This practical guide will help you to get started with creating, debugging, and deploying your Node.js applications and cover solutions to common problems, along with tips to avoid pitfalls. You'll become familiar with the Node.js development model by learning how to handle files and build simple web applications and then explore established and emerging Node.js web frameworks such as Express.js and Fastify. As you advance, you'll discover techniques for detecting problems in your applications, handling security concerns, and deploying your applications to the cloud. This recipe-based guide will help you to easily navigate through various core topics of server-side web application development with Node.js. By the end of this Node book, you'll be well-versed with core Node.js concepts and have gained the knowledge to start building performant and scalable Node.js applications.
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Logging with Node.js

Effective logging can help you understand what is going on in an application. Logs can help triage causes of crashes or failures retrospectively by helping you to see what was happening in your application prior to the crash or failure.

Logging can also be used to help collate data. As an example, if you log all accesses to endpoints on your web application, you could collate all the request logs to determine what the most visited endpoints are.

In this recipe, we will look at logging with pino, a JSON-based logger. In the There's more section, we'll look at the alternative Morgan and Winston loggers.

Getting ready

  1. First, we'll create a new directory named express-pino-app, initialize our project, and then install the express module:
    $ mkdir express-pino-app
    $ cd express-pino-app
    $ npm init --yes
    $ npm install express
  2. Now, we'll create a file for our server named server.js:
    $ touch server.js
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