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Node.js Web Development.. - Fifth Edition

You're reading from  Node.js Web Development.. - Fifth Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838987572
Pages 760 pages
Edition 5th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
David Herron David Herron
Profile icon David Herron

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Node.js
2. About Node.js 3. Setting Up Node.js 4. Exploring Node.js Modules 5. HTTP Servers and Clients 6. Section 2: Developing the Express Application
7. Your First Express Application 8. Implementing the Mobile-First Paradigm 9. Data Storage and Retrieval 10. Authenticating Users with a Microservice 11. Dynamic Client/Server Interaction with Socket.IO 12. Section 3: Deployment
13. Deploying Node.js Applications to Linux Servers 14. Deploying Node.js Microservices with Docker 15. Deploying a Docker Swarm to AWS EC2 with Terraform 16. Unit Testing and Functional Testing 17. Security in Node.js Applications 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Scaling up – running multiple Notes instances

Now that we've got ourselves a running application, you'll have played around a bit and created, read, updated, and deleted many notes.

Suppose for a moment that this isn't a toy application, but one that is interesting enough to draw millions of users a day. Serving a high load typically means adding servers, load balancers, and many other things. A core part of this is to have multiple instances of the application running at the same time to spread the load.

Let's see what happens when you run multiple instances of the Notes application at the same time.

The first thing is to make sure the instances are on different ports. In app.mjs, you'll see that setting the PORT environment variable controls the port being used. If the PORT variable is not set, it defaults to http://localhost:3000, or what we've been using all along.

Let's open up package.json and add the following lines to the scripts section...

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