Node has become the server-side language for blazingly fast performance. In this book we'll build real time chat and MVC applications, create a CLI and authenticate apps with MongoDB.

9 Practical Node.js Projects

Preface

If you’re just getting started with Node.js and want to try your hand at building a web app, things can often get a little overwhelming. Once you get beyond the "Hello, World!" tutorials, much of the material out there has you copy-pasting code, with little or no explanation as to what you’re doing or why.

Build a Simple Beginner App with Node, Bootstrap &amp; MongoDB

Let’s face it, nobody likes forms. Developers don’t like building them, designers don’t particularly enjoy styling them and users certainly don’t like filling them in.

How to Build a File Upload Form with Express and Dropzone.js

In a non-trivial application, the architecture is as important as the quality of the code itself. We can have well-written pieces of code, but if we don’t have a good organization, we’ll have a hard time as the complexity increases. There’s no need to wait until the project is half-way done to start thinking about the architecture. The best time is before starting, using our goals as beacons for our choices.

How to Build and Structure a Node.js MVC Application

In this article, we’re going to look at managing user authentication in the MEAN stack. We’ll use the most common MEAN architecture of having an Angular single-page app using a REST API built with Node, Express and MongoDB.

User Authentication with the MEAN Stack

As great as Node.js is for “traditional” web applications, its potential uses are far broader. Microservices, REST APIs, tooling, working with the Internet of Things and even desktop applications: it’s got your back.

Build a JavaScript Command Line Interface (CLI) with Node.js

If you’re a developer who currently uses frameworks such as Django, Laravel or Rails, you’ve probably heard about Node.js. You might already be using a popular front-end library such as Angular or React in your projects. By now, you should be thinking about doing a complete switchover to a server technology based on Node.js.

Building a Real-time Chat App with Sails.js

In this tutorial, we’ll be implementing authentication via Facebook and GitHub in a Node.js web application. For this, we’ll be using Passport , an authentication middleware for Node.js. Passport supports authentication with OpenId/OAuth providers.

Passport Authentication for Node.js Applications

In the last chapter, we talked about authentication using Passport as it relates to social login (Google, Facebook, GitHub, etc.). In this chapter, we’ll see how we can use Passport for local authentication with a MongoDB back end.

Local Authentication Using Passport in Node.js

Many web developers out there would love the chance to build an incredibly cool robot that they can control via JavaScript, right? I’m here to tell you that this is already possible today! Right now.

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