Summary

So far, you have covered nearly all the basics of web development with Node.js.

You started with an introduction to Node.js, wrote your first program, and ran it. You learned about Node's package manager and the Node.js environments. You were guided through some of the useful built-in and third-party Node.js modules and discovered how you can import these modules in your application and use common modules such as body parse and auth. You created connections with databases using Node.js and learned how to make queries in the databases.

Finally, you learned how to make a real-time web application and learned how to build a chat application. There are a lot of concepts still to cover because node is huge, however, you have the required knowledge to explore node further with ease. In the next chapter, you will learn how to use requests to communicate with other services. You will look into different types of requests and how to process and display data. You will also...