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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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Sending an automated email using your own SMTP server

SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and is a protocol for sending emails. In this recipe, we will be setting up an SMTP server using a third-party npm module named smtp-server.

You probably receive several automated emails per day to your inbox. In the There's more… section, we're going to learn how we can send an email via Node.js to the SMTP server we created in the recipe.

Getting ready

First, let's create a directory named server-smtp and a file named server.js:

$ mkdir server-smtp
$ cd server-smpt
$ touch server.js

As we'll be using the third-party npm smtp-server module, we will need to initialize our project:

$ npm init –yes

Important note

Note that we could not name our directory for this recipe smtp-server as npm refuses to allow you to install an npm module where the project name is the same as the module. If we had named our directory smtp-server, our...

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