You have now experienced the beauty and simplicity of Node and Express - and you have created a few simple back-end servers and enabled your client to talk to it. How cool! So far we've been putting all of our routes on the app object that was created with the
Heroku is an excellent service that specializes in making deployment of your web application quick and painless. Fortunately for us, it also has a free tier that will be perfect for our needs. There will only be a little bit of setup needed to get your web app up and
You're tasked with making a command-line game or utility of your own choosing that you will run using Node.js. Think in the past of the command-line programs we've written, such as the Look-it-up Dictionary, Penguins vs. Communists, Princess is in Another Castle, Battleship, etc. Well now you get to
There are a few different common patterns that are used to set up the structure of your modules in Node.js. We'll be discussing 5 such common patterns. One of the main things to know/remember, which will help you immensely as you're trying to understand these different patterns, is
If you recall from the Intro to Node post, one of the main requirements of having JavaScript be able to work on a server is to have code that can be more easily organized. Thus far in JavaScript, we're used to having each JavaScript file be completely on its own,