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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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Handling HTTP POST requests

The HTTP POST method is used to send data to the server, as opposed to the HTTP GET method, which is used to obtain data.

To be able to receive POST data, we need to instruct our server how to accept and handle POST requests. A POST request typically contains data within the body of the request, which is sent to the server to be handled. The submission of a web form is typically done via an HTTP POST request.

Important note

In PHP, it is possible to access POST data via the $_POST array. PHP does not follow the non-blocking architecture that Node.js does, which means that the PHP program would wait, or block, until the $_POST values are populated. Node.js, however, provides asynchronous interaction with HTTP data at a lower level, which allows us to interface with the incoming message body as a stream. This means that the handling of the incoming stream is within the developer's control and concern.

In this recipe, we're going to create...

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