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Learning Node.js Development

You're reading from   Learning Node.js Development Learn the fundamentals of Node.js, and deploy and test Node.js applications on the web

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788395540
Length 658 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Mead Andrew Mead
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Preface 1. Getting Set Up 2. Node Fundamentals – Part 1 FREE CHAPTER 3. Node Fundamentals – Part 2 4. Node Fundamentals – Part 3 5. Basics of Asynchronous Programming in Node.js 6. Callbacks in Asynchronous Programming 7. Promises in Asynchronous Programming 8. Web Servers in Node 9. Deploying Applications to Web 10. Testing the Node Applications – Part 1 11. Testing the Node Applications – Part 2 12. Another Book You May Enjoy

Deploying the node app to the Web

In this section, you'll deploy your Node app live to the Web using Heroku. By the end of the section, you'll have the URL you can give anybody and they'll be able to go to that URL in their browser to view the application. We'll do this via Heroku.

Heroku is a website. It's a web app for managing web applications that are hosted in the cloud. It's a really great service. They make it almost effortless to create new apps, deploy your apps, update apps, and add cool add-on-things such as logging and error tracking, all of that is built in. Now Heroku, like GitHub, does not require a credit card to sign up and there is a free tier, which we'll use. They have paid plans for just about everything, but we can get away with the free tier for everything we'll do in this section.

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