Node.js Tutorial
What is the syntax like?
Well, everything you already know with JavaScript can be played here, except for the DOM, which if you don't know, includes interacting with a website.
For example we can do some basic console.logs() in Node.js
const x = 6;
// Console commands work as normal
console.log('x is ' + 6); // Returns 'x is 6'
//But with ES5 you can do this:
console.log(`x is ${x}`); // Returns 'x is 6'Ok, but why Node.js
Well, first off, if you want to know why not to use python, I won't say anything, but if you are here because you don't know the difference between the browser js, then continue on.
Node.js makes everything come together. It's a server, which basically controls a bunch of people. Chat rooms send a message to the server, which sends it to everyone else.
Sign in pages send your typed data and check a database to see if it exists.
But it all starts here...
Node.js has something called a module
4 concepts to remember about modules
- A module must be imported
- Modules make Node.js work not like browser js
- Modules can make coding cleaner, resulting in more files and folders
- You can make a module very easily
Ok, how do you import a module
Well lets use the old fashion way because repl needs to update to node 14 for other things.
Below is how you import a module
const variableToHoldContentOfModule = require('module name as it should be')Can we import a module as an example?
Yeah ok, lets use the OS module
It can help with determining what module to use.
// Import the module, using require syntax
let os = require('os');
//now that we have the os module, we can use the docs to help us find out our platform. Do this by tacking on .platform() to it.
console.log(`Your platform is ${os.platform()}`)
//now on repl it will be weird to some, as it says Linux, but thats because repl uses a virtual machine built on linux.How do we make our own module?
Well modules are just js files that work with the server. Try going into module.js at this time, or making it if you are following by yourself.
In there, we added the following code:
// Write some code that you want to share with index.js,
let x = 'some random text to export';
function add(x, y) {
return x + y; //simle add function
}
function sub(x, y) {
return x - y; //simle subtract function
}As of right now these functions and variables are local to the file, so to make them public, you do the following after everything was declared. It is usually the last thing in a file.
module.exports = {
addFunction: add,
subFunction: sub,
randomText: x
}Come back to index.js and import it
//Node already knows its a js file so you dont need the extension
const moduleWeGot = require('./module');
// the "./" refers to the root directory// Time to see our options:
console.log(moduleWeGot);We see this:
{
addFunction: [Function: add],
subFunction: [Function: sub],
randomText: 'some random text to export'
}Our data is there, so now we can just get them with some dot notation.
moduleWeGot.addFunction(5, 4); //returns 9There is an easier way to get the module though
const { addFunction, subFunction, randomText } = require('./module');Then use the function as follows
addFunction(5, 66); //Returns 71I really hope this tutorial helps!!
Well, this isn’t really a NodeJS tutorial, you don’t go over anything that NodeJS is actually used for (Web Dev, App Launch, etc.) but instead just modules..
Clickbait title lol. Definitely got u lmao @RayhanADev
@RohilPatel lmao, fits perfectly with this xD.
Lamo. I've never gotten 100+ upvotes on any of my posts lol @RayhanADev
@RohilPatel I only got 50+ on the Repl Search Bar. That was it. All my other projects get like 5-20 upvotes. It makes somewhat sad xD.
Lol, on average I get like 20, but my most has 73 I think @RayhanADev
@RohilPatel nice! How long have you been on Repl.it anyways? You seem like an OG.
Nah, I'm not lol. Only been here for like eh, a year and a half @RayhanADev
@RohilPatel that at least 18 times longer than me also you go to the same school as Coder100?
Yeah lol. He isn't as magical as he seems though lol in person, and to be fair, nor am I @RayhanADev
@RohilPatel lmao, Repl is amazing like that isn’t it. I’m becoming scarily well-known for the less than month I’ve been here and irl nobody cares about me xD.
Lolz. I'm working on a game called Amang Us. (Not a typo) @RayhanADev
@RohilPatel hahahaha noice one! What’s it going to be about (please don’t say terminal among us I will cry)?
Nonono, it's a website. I'm scared to make it multiplayer but I will do it due to socket.io resets but look here for now https://amang-us.rohilpatel.repl.co/# @RayhanADev
@RohilPatel nice (enjoys clicking screen that does nothing) :ramen-blob:
Congratulations! This tutorial now has more upvotes than the React tutorial! 😂
Great tuorial, @RohilPatel! I learned a lot that I didn't already know in the os module section.
Cool!
Also i think this comment supposed to be in the code block!
Tonight I plan to have it out, and if all this makes sense, go to here.
Btw there’s no link on the ‘here’, that intentional?
:)
Yeah I wasn't feeling it. Also thanks for that error, I just made the llesson on the code and then did the md @Bookie0
Thx for this tutorial ,i will see this properly later but it's amazing . Take my upvote!!
@DynamicSquid do teachers at squid school make you learn from tutorials?
(Also do you have discord?)
@RohilPatel The only answer I know is to the latter question and no, he does not have discord. and also try checking timezones, (Mountain Time to be precise)
Ok lol @firefish
Did u know tutorials like tutorials
Good job!
Thanks! Upvote if you want, and I also saw on someone's post u were looking for a node tutorial, does this help? @tsunami21
@RohilPatel I'm removing this, don't ask for upvotes.
We use Deno here.
No yes @Theboys619
@RohilPatel you forgot the other way of importing:
import "telephone"; // what the hell why am i making up module names HELP ME
from "fs" import "readFileSync"; //at least i thought of one
// etcNo, readFileSync is an identifier and this is not python, you got them reversed @firefish
Python is on the opposite spectrum of JS lmao @Coder100
ha modules is also node's downfall.
Yeah import is much better =/. Did u like the repl? @realTronsi
Or I mean the tutorial @realTronsi
@RohilPatel not much content but yeah decent tutorial
Yeah lol, upvote if u want. Is there anything you think I should make? I'm far more advanced than this tut @realTronsi
quick steps with functions, variables, loops, and if statements / switch statements. Maybe even JSON objects. @RohilPatel
@Theboys619 lol those are too beginner
i guess. @realTronsi
Yea a little beginner, I'll probably teach ejs and data passing @realTronsi
@RohilPatel hm lol ok
lolololololol @realTronsi
Yea a little beginner, I'll probably teach ejs and data passing @realTronsi
@RohilPatel I like to think I know a lot about node, but like what is ejs and data passing
@firefish ejs is just a rendering template, and I don't know what he means by data passing lol
@realTronsi I had a look at some ejs code, and pug looks more elegant than <%= stuff.
@firefish I never really used pug, but the ejs tag allows you to do expressions and stuff, not sure if pugjs is the same
@realTronsi like what kind of expressions, but I'm not exactly an expert at pugjs, @Coder100 is however
pug js more like EJS @firefish
Ok C tutorial when @firefish
@Coder100 ejs more like using websockets to send variables over and then replacing the innerHTML with the variable smort
@Coder100 Why do you need C tutorial
Because C good @realTronsi
@Coder100 I thought you know C
@Coder100 C? YES POG POG trying to speak cookeylang POG POG C TUTORIAL POG POG
@firefish how much C do you know
@realTronsi moderate amount, here is most of my nkowledge concentrated into one repl: https://repl.it/@firefish/myMem
@firefish wait lol what is this for:
int qRand() {
int q[2] = { num_q, 35006 };
return q[3];
}@realTronsi Index-out-of-range is not prohibited.
@firefish I know so why is that your function?
POG POG POG POOGG @firefish
that's why im writing it @realTronsi
@realTronsi random number generator
poogg? what in the world @Coder100
no but your random number generator is returning an invalid index, its going to seg fault no? @firefish
@realTronsi Aha, you see. It doesn't segfault because the index is only two places away from the end of the array, so there is stuff in accessible memory there. A SegFault occurs when you attempt to access memory that is inaccessible to your process, but the memory I am accessing is so close to the end of the array that it's probably reading the string passed to a printf call or something.
@firefish oh so it isn't random then though?
also thought this seg faulted but apparently this doesnt:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int foo[2] = {1, 2};
printf("%d", foo[3]);
}#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int foo[2] = {1, 2};
printf("%d", foo[2]);
}interesting result
@realTronsi Well, the randomness occurs at compile-time, in the form of how to arrange the binary, rather than at runtime.
@realTronsi is 4195632 interesting at all?
@firefish what? I don't see how pseudorandomness can occur from compiling?
@firefish not sure what it comes from, doesn't change from manipulating the list
@realTronsi Ah, just realised. clang does things differently than to gcc.
@realTronsi I know, the clang version works as expected however the gcc one does not
@realTronsi @fuzzyastrocat Nightmare code: malloc bomb + fork bomb
@firefish what is that syntax highlighting ewww
@realTronsi my theme, thanks for reminding me that it is not normal syntax highlighting
@firefish ah yes perfection
@RohilPatel Please actually cover node's strength and main use case: writing server applications.
@fuzzyastrocat and also having simultaneously the worst and best package manager
Yep I did @fuzzyastrocat
Data passing is where you send something from the backend to the front end.
app.get('/', (_, res) => {
res.render('index', {
x: 5,
y: 6,
z: 9
}
}<%= x %> <!-- Returns "5" -->oh, just cover templating engines instead then @RohilPatel
yeah probably. @realTronsi
@RohilPatel Uh, where? All I see in the tutorial is modules.
In the "ok, why NodeJs" @fuzzyastrocat
@RohilPatel The point of a tutorial is to explain how to do something. Nowhere in this tutorial does it explain anything about how to do server-side things.
I would not call this a node tutorial. I would call it a module tutorial. You don't actually go over anything but module's
True, but luckily there was a module here I didn't actually know about.
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