Smashing Node.JS

HTTP 87The structure of HTTP 88Headers 89Connections 93A simple web server 94Creating the module 95Printing out the form 95Methods and URLs 97Data 99Putting the pieces together 102Bullet-proofing 103A Twitter web client 104Creating the module 104Making a simple HTTP request 104Sending a body of data 106Getting tweets 107A superagent to the rescue 110Reloading HTTP servers with up 111Summary 112PART III: WEB DEVELOPMENT 113Chapter 8: Connect 115A simple website with HTTP 116A simple website with Connect 119Middleware 121Writing reusable middleware 122Static middleware 127Query 128Logger 129Body parser 131Cookies 134Session 134REDIS sessions 140methodOverride 141basicAuth 141Summary 144Chapter 9: Express 145A simple express app 146Creating the module 146HTML 146Setup 147Defining routes 148Search 150Run 152Settings 153Template engines 154Error handling 155Convenience methods 155Routes 157Middleware 159Organization strategies 160Summary 162Chapter 10: WebSocket 163AJAX 164HTML5 WebSocket 166An Echo Example 167Setting it up 167Setting up the server 168Setting up the client 169Running the server 170Mouse cursors 171Setting up the example 171Setting up the server 172Setting up the client 174Running the server 176The Challenges Ahead 177Close doesn't mean disconnect 177JSON 177Reconnections 177Broadcasting 177WebSockets are HTML5: Older browsers don't support them 177The solution 178Summary 178Chapter 11: Socket.IO 179Transports 180Disconnected versus closed 180Events 180Namespaces 181A chat program 182Setting up the program 182Setting up the server 182Setting up the client 183Events and Broadcasting 185Ensuring reception 190A DJ-by-turns application 191Extending the chat 191Integrating with the Grooveshark API 193Playing 196Summary 201PART IV: DATABASES 203Chapter 12: MongoDB 205Installation 207Accessing MongoDB: A user authentication example 208Setting up the application 208Creating the Express app 208Connecting to MongoDB 212Creating documents 214Finding documents 215Authentication middleware 217Validation 218Atomicity 219Safe mode 219Introducing Mongoose 220Defining a model 220Defining nested keys 222Defining embedded documents 222Setting up indexes 222Middleware 223Inspecting the state of the model 223Querying 224Extending queries 224Sorting 224Making Selections 224Limiting 225Skipping 225Populating keys automatically 225Casting 225A mongoose example 226Setting up the application 226Refactoring 226Setting up models 227Summary 229Chapter 13: MySQL 231node-mysql 232Setting it up 232The Express app 232Connecting to MySQL 234Initializing the script 234Creating data 238Fetching data 242sequelize 244Setting up sequelize 245Setting up the Express app 245Connecting sequelize 248Defining models and synchronizing 249Creating data 250Retrieving data 253Removing data 254Wrapping up 256Summary 257Chapter 14: Redis 259Installing Redis 261The Redis query language 261Data types 262Strings 263Hashes 263Lists 265Sets 265Sorted sets 266Redis and Node 266Implementing a social graph with node-redis 267Summary 276PART V: TESTING 277Chapter 15: Code Sharing 279What can be shared? 280Writing compatible JavaScript 280Exposing modules 280Shimming ECMA APIs 282Shimming Node APIs 283Shimming browser APIs 284Cross-browser inheritance 284Putting it all together: browserbuild 285A basic example 286Summary 288Chapter 16: Testing 289Simple testing 290The test subject 290The test strategy 290The test program 291Expect.JS 292API overview 292Mocha 294Testing asynchronous code 295BDD style 297TDD style 298Exports style 298Taking Mocha to the browser 299Summary 300