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Product details
- ISBN 9781098173142
- Dimensions: 178 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2025
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Whether you're a JavaScript beginner ready to build your first backend app or a self-taught developer looking to grow beyond tutorials, Node.js Projects gives you the hands-on experience you need. Through a series of self-contained projects ranging from content aggregators to secure password managers, web scrapers, ML-backed analysis, and an AI-powered learning assistant, you'll apply modern tools like Fastify, MongoDB, Redis, JWT, and Google's Gemini API in practical, job-relevant ways.
With each chapter, author Jonathan Wexler challenges you to think like an engineer, emphasizing architectural thinking, clean coding, and iterative design. You'll build confidence solving real-world problems while deepening your understanding of asynchronous programming, API design, security practices, and scalable deployment patterns.
- Confidently master async programming with async/await and the Node.js event loop
- Effectively design scalable APIs using Fastify and modular routing patterns
- Reliably manage data with the filesystem, MongoDB, and CSV output
- Securely implement authentication flows with JWTs and environment-based configs
- Seamlessly integrate third-party APIs like OpenAI and Google Gemini
- Efficiently build real-time features with Redis, schedulers, and event-driven logic
- Smoothly transition from prototype to production with modern Node.js workflows
