Node.js Application Architecture 🇵🇱 🇬🇧 3 days

About

Microservices, Cloud and Continuos Delivery heavily influenced the way modern teams build their software.

In this new world there's an increasing need for very fast and performant IO bound services that effectively use server resources and are written in a familiar language. That is where Node.js really shines.

During this training you'll learn to build Node.js apps from A to Z.

What will I learn?

• Create testable APIs and Web Apps talking to NoSQL database
• Evolve application structure based on feedback from code
• Choose appropriate architectural styles to the problem at hand
• Write applications by composing small libraries and functions (the Unix Way)

Agenda

Express.js

• routes
• middleware
• error handling
• template engines
• connecting to MongoDB

REST

• Resources and Representations
• Content Negotiation
• Collection resource
• HATEOAS - hypermedia
• HTML as media type

Layered Architecture

• Dependency Injection without frameworks
• Asynchronous dependencies
• CRUD
• controllers
• services
• repositories
• domain logic
• data validation

Event Sourcing and CQRS Architecture

• aggregates, commands and events
• modelling invariants
• node-eventstore (MongoDB, in-memory)
• command handlers
• event publishing with HTTP

Pipes and Filters Architecture with Streams

• a case for streams
• stream types (readable, writable, transform)
• core Node.js streams (http, fs, zlib)
• npm stream modules (through2, split2)
• pipes and filters architecture

Testability

• design for testability
• dealing with "difficult" dependencies
• London school of unit testing
• Chicago school of unit testing
• Component testing
• tooling: mocha, tape, supertest

Refactoring Legacy Node.js

• finding "seams" in code
• adding characterization tests
• using code coverage to find dead code
• identifying code smells
• automated IDE based refactoring