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Node.js Design Patterns - Third Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839214110
Pages 664 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Mario Casciaro Mario Casciaro
Profile icon Mario Casciaro
Luciano Mammino Luciano Mammino
Profile icon Luciano Mammino
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface 1. The Node.js Platform 2. The Module System 3. Callbacks and Events 4. Asynchronous Control Flow Patterns with Callbacks 5. Asynchronous Control Flow Patterns with Promises and Async/Await 6. Coding with Streams 7. Creational Design Patterns 8. Structural Design Patterns 9. Behavioral Design Patterns 10. Universal JavaScript for Web Applications 11. Advanced Recipes 12. Scalability and Architectural Patterns 13. Messaging and Integration Patterns 14. Other Books You May Enjoy
15. Index

Scalability and Architectural Patterns

In its early days, Node.js was just a non-blocking web server written in C++ and JavaScript and was called web.js. Its creator, Ryan Dahl, soon realized the potential of the platform and started extending it with tools to enable the creation of different types of server-side applications on top of JavaScript and the non-blocking paradigm.

The characteristics of Node.js are perfect for the implementation of distributed systems, ranging from a few nodes to thousands of nodes communicating through the network: Node.js was born to be distributed.

Unlike in other web platforms, scalability is a topic that gets explored rather quickly in Node.js while developing an application. This is often because of the single-threaded nature of Node.js, which is incapable of exploiting all the resources of a multi-core machine. But this is just one side of the coin. In reality, there are more profound reasons for talking about...

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