List of Figures

Chapter 1. Getting started

Figure 1.1. An advertising server built with Node

Figure 1.2. Node’s key parts in context

Figure 1.3. The three steps to creating a new Node project

Chapter 2. Globals: Node’s environment

Figure 2.1. Folders as modules

Figure 2.2. Data flows in a simple program that uses stdio.

Figure 2.3. Signals originate from a process, and are handled with an event listener.

Figure 2.4. Scheduling nextTick on the event loop

Chapter 3. Buffers: Working with bits, bytes, and encodings

Figure 3.1. Data URI read in a browser displays the monkey as an image

Figure 3.2. Generated secondmonkey.png file from a data URI

Figure 3.3. The transformation of binary data into a more usable/programmable format

Figure 3.4. Binary data is read using FileSystem API into Node.js, transformed using the Buffer API into an easier-to-use JSON format.

Figure 3.5. Final result of our transformation

Figure 3.6. The header: transformation from the specification to code using the Node Buffer API

Figure 3.7. The field descriptor array: transformation from the specification to code using the Node Buffer API

Figure 3.8. The records: transformation from the specification to code using the Node Buffer API

Figure 3.9. The full set of code for parsing a DBF file into JSON

Chapter 4. Events: Mastering EventEmitter and beyond

Figure 4.1. Domains help catch errors and handle them with an EventEmitter-style API.

Chapter 5. Streams: Node’s most powerful and misunderstood feature