Server Learning Outcomes

Node

Servers

• Create a web server that responds to http requests
• Conditionally set ports for our server based on the runtime environment
• Read secrets from a .env file
• Prevent sensitive data from being pushed to GitHub
• Route requests to the correct handler function(s)
• Serve different types of files to the client
• Read information sent in a URL query string

Request bodies

• Handle data received from a POST request
• Handle streams of data sent from the client that don’t arrive all at once
• Give descriptive names to HTML form input fields so that it is easy to access data in the request
• Parse data sent via a default HTML form submission

Core modules

• Use core Node modules
• read files synchronously and asynchronously using Node’s fs module

Design

• Design a website that is easy to use and to navigate
• Identify common design patterns that aid usability
• Build website navigation that demonstrates good usability
• Make HTML elements look different on hover and focus to indicate their state to the user

Testing

• Test our code with a third party library
• Install libraries from npm as dev dependencies
• Create package.json scripts that run our tests

Developer Toolkit

User stories

• Write user stories with clearly defined acceptance criteria