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Node Cookbook

Node Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Bethany Griggs
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Node Cookbook

Node Cookbook

4.5 (10)
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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Benchmarking HTTP requests

As seen throughout this book, HTTP communications are the foundation of many Node.js applications and microservices. For these applications, the HTTP requests should be handled as efficiently as possible. To be able to optimize, we must first record a baseline measure of our application's performance. Once we've recorded the baseline, we will be able to determine the impact of our optimizations.

To create a baseline, it is necessary to simulate the load on the application and record how it responds. For an HTTP-based application, the simulation of HTTP requests sent to the server is required.

In this recipe, we will be capturing a baseline performance measure for an HTTP web server using a tool named autocannon (https://github.com/mcollina/autocannon) to simulate HTTP requests.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will be using the autocannon tool to benchmark an Express.js web server. Instead of creating a web server from scratch, we&apos...

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